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> Not all titles are positive law — some titles are "evidence of law" rather than the legal text itself (see 1 USC § 204)

The vocabulary of this sentence is inconsistent with section 204 [0]. It is the positively enacted titles which are "legal evidence of the laws". The other titles merely "establish prima facie" what the law is, subordinate to a closer examination of the bills actually passed, which control. In other words, "evidence of law" is the stronger of the two, not the weaker, as the readme suggests.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/204



Agreed. The over-confident quipy-ness of the description reads like an LLM. Though fwiw, I’m a lawyer and it took me a minute to parse this.




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