Pattern Headings: Legal Topics H 1154.

PATTERN: Labor laws and legislation

TYPES OF HEADINGS COVERED BY THE PATTERN: Headings for legal topics, for
example, Torts; Civil procedure; Domestic relations; Airspace (International law); legal
phrase headings, for example, Agricultural laws and legislation; Criminal law; Trade
regulation; headings for legal systems, for example, Islamic law; International law; topical
headings subdivided by the legal subdivisions –Law and legislation; –Legal status, laws, etc.;
and –Safety regulations; place names subdivided by legal subdivisions, for example, –Foreign
relations–Law and legislation.

Note: Establish editorially new uses of the subdivision –Law and legislation. For
guidelines on the usage of the subdivisions –Law and legislation; –Legal status, laws,
etc.; and –Safety regulations under topical headings, see H 1705.

CONFLICTS: Any subdivision listed here can be used as a free-floating subdivision under any
heading belonging to this category if it is appropriate and no conflict exists in the subject
authority file. Subject authority records may exist for headings employing variant phrases or
subdivisions equivalent to subdivisions on this list.

LC practice:
If an exceptional variant form is to be retained, make a UF reference from the equivalent
free-floating subdivision form following the procedures in H 195 if the reference does not yet
exist. Otherwise, submit a proposal to change the variant form along with all bibliographic
records requiring correction following the procedures in H 193.

Note: Most form subdivisions coded $v in this list may also be used as topical
subdivisions coded $x when assigned to works about the form (see H 1075, sec. 1.d.).

$v Cases
$x Codification
$x Compliance costs (May Subd Geog)
$x Criminal provisions
$v Digests
$x Environmental aspects (May Subd Geog)
$v Forms
$x International unification

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$x Interpretation and construction1

$x Language
$x Legal research2
$x Legislative history3
$v Popular works
$x Research (May Subd Geog)2
$x Trial practice

NOTES

1Do not use under the heading Constitutional law.

2For the distinction in usage between the subdivisions –Legal research and –Research, see H 1710.

3The subdivision –Legislative history may also be used as a free-floating subdivision under names of individual
legislative enactments (see H 1715, sec. 3.c.).

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