List of U.S. Estate´s Areas of Law in the United States
The following list is compiled from most of the state statutes on the Internet and secondary sources, like encyclopedias about state law.
- Abandonment and Escheat
- Abortion
- Accord and Satisfaction
- Accounts and Accounting
- Actions
- Adjoining Landowners
- Administrative Law and Procedure
- Admiralty
- Adoption
- Adultery
- Adverse Possession
- Affidavits, Acknowledgements, Notaries, and Seals
- Agents and Factors
- Agriculture
- Airports and Aviation
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Aliens and Citizens
- Alteration and Reformation of Instruments
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Amicus Curiae
- Amusements
- Animals
- Annuities
- Appeals
- Appearance
- Armed Services and Veterans
- Arrest, Bail, and Recognizance
- Arson, Burning, and Explosives
- Assignments
- Assignments for Benefit of Creditors
- Associations, Clubs, and Limited Liability Companies
- Assult and Battery
- Assumpsit
- Attachment
- Attorney and Client
- Attorney General and State’s Attorneys
- Auctions and Auctioneers
- Automobiles and Motor Vehicles
- Bailment
- Banks and Trust Companies
- Bonds
- Boundaries
- Bribery
- Bridges
- Brokers
- Building and Savings and Loan Associations
- Burglary
- Business and Professions Code
- Cancellation of Instruments
- Carriers
- Cemeteries and Dead Bodies
- Charities
- Chattel Mortgages
- Civil Code
- Civil Procedure
- Civil Rights
- Clerks of Court
- Commercial Law
- Common Law
- Composition with Creditors
- Compromise and Settlement
- Conflicts of Law
- Conspiracy
- Constitutional Law
- Contempt
- Continuance
- Contracts
- Contribution
- Conversion
- Conveyances
- Corporations
- Corrections
- Costs
- Counties
- Courts and Court Officers
- Covenants
- Creditor and Debtor
- Criminal Code
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Customs and Usages
- Damages
- Death; Dead Bodies
- Declaratory Judgments
- Dedication
- Depositories
- Deposits in Court
- Descent & Distribution
- Discovery
- Dismissal
- Divorce
- Domicile
- Dower and Curtesy
- Drugs & Narcotics
- Easements
- Education
- Ejectment
- Election of Remedies
- Elections
- Electric Companies
- Emancipation of Children
- Embezzlement
- Eminent Domain
- Employment and Labor
- Equity
- Estates
- Estoppel
- Evidence
- Executors and Administrators
- Exemptions
- Extradition
- False Imprisonment
- False Pretenses
- Family Law
- Financial Institutions
- Fines, Forfeiture, and Penalties
- Fish and Game
- Fixtures
- Forgery
- Franchises
- Fraud and Negligent Misrepresentation
- Frauds, Statute of
- Fraudulent Conveyances
- Gaming and Lotteries
- Garnishment
- Gas Companies
- Gifts
- Goodwill
- Government – County
- Government – Local
- Government – Municipal
- Government – State
- Grand Jury
- Ground Rents
- Guaranty
- Guardian and Ward
- Habeas Corpus
- Habitual Criminals and Subsequent Offenders
- Health
- Higher Education and Vocational Training
- Highways
- Homicide
- Hospitals
- Hotels, Inns, and Boardinghouses
- Husband and Wife
- Indemnity
- Indictments and Informations
- Infants and Minors
- Injunctions
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Interest and Usury
- Interpleader
- Intoxication
- Joint Tenancy
- Joint Ventures
- Judges
- Judgments and Executions
- Judicial Sales
- Juries
- Kidnapping and Abduction
- Labor
- Labor and Industrial Safety
- Landlord and Tenant
- Larceny
- Libel and Slander
- Licenses
- Liens
- Limitation of Actions
- Lis Pendens
- Malicious Prosecution
- Mandamus
- Marriage
- Mechanics’ Liens
- Mental Health
- Mobile Homes and Parks
- Monopolies and Unfair Trade
- Mortgages
- Motions
- Motor Vehicles
- Municipal Corporations
- Names
- Natural Resources
- Natural Resources – General
- Navigation
- Negligence
- Negotiable Instruments
- New Trial
- Notice
- Nuisances
- Obscenity
- Officers
- Pardon and Parole
- Parent and Child
- Parties
- Partition
- Partnership
- Payment
- Perjury
- Perpetuities
- Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health-Care Providers
- Pleading
- Pledges
- Powers
- Prisons and Prisoners
- Probate
- Process
- Products Liability
- Property
- Prostitution and Related Offenses
- Public Service Commission
- Quieting Title
- Railroads
- Rape
- Receipt and Possession of Stolen Property
- Receivers: Guardians and Fiduciaries
- Records
- Release
- Religious Societies
- Replevin
- Revenue and Taxes
- Rewards and Bounties
- Robbery
- Sales of Personalty
- Sales of Realty
- Scire Facias
- Seals
- Searches and Seizures
- Secured Transactions
- Seduction
- Set-off and Counterclaim
- Sheriffs and Constables
- Social Security & Welfare
- Specific Performance
- State Government
- Statutes
- Stipulation
- Street Railroads
- Streets and Highways
- Subrogation
- Subscriptions
- Sureties
- Taxation
- Telecommunications
- Tenancy in Common
- Tender
- Time
- Torts
- Trespass
- Trial
- Trusts
- Unemployment
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Utilities and Transportation
- Venue
- Warehousemen
- Water Code
- Weapons & Firearms
- Weighs and Measures
- Wills
- Witnesses
- Workers’ Compensation
- Zoning and Planning
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