LibGuides: Ohio Primary Law Legal Research Guide: Historical Statutes

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Historical Codes

1952-1910: General Code
The 1953 Ohio Revised Code was created by revising and renumbering the General Code. The General Code was created by revising and renumbering the Revised Statutes.

For information on the 1953 code revision, see Baldwin's Ohio Revised Code User Guide at page xlvi: Ohio Revised Code: Its Impact and Implications, Arthur Fiske, Cleveland Bar Journal, Dec. 1954; 26 Ohio Bar 375 (1953)

The following are also on HeinOnline - State Statutes a Historical Archive

1910-1880: Revised Statutes
The first complete codification of Ohio Laws
Before 1880: Various compilations of Ohio statutes and laws of the Northwest Territory were published, such as:
The Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio, of a General Nature, in Force August 1, 1860
collated by Joseph R. Swan;
The Statutes of Ohio and of the Northwestern Territory : Adopted or Enacted from 1788 to 1833 Inclusive; Together with the Ordinance of 1787, the Constitutions of Ohio and of the United States
edited by Salmon P. Chase

Correlation Tables

If the researcher finds a General Code section in an old case, a correlation table will identify where this section was codified in the Ohio Revised Code. There are also tables showing the corresponding sections in the General Code and the Revised Statutes.

Correlation Table - Revised Code to General Code
You will find correlation tables from the Revised Code to/from the General Code in 1953 editions of the ORC, such as Anderson's Desk Edition of the Ohio Revised Code, p. 299-end,

If you want a correlation table for an ORC edition later that 1953, try Baldwin's Ohio Revised Code, Volume labeled "Ohio Constitution, Tables and General Provisions". Prior editions of Baldwin's or Page's may have charts comparing an earlier version of the Ohio Revised Code to the General Code.
Correlation Table: General Code to/from Revised Statutes
There are correlation tables from the General Code to the Revised Statutes in some editions of the General Code such as Throckmorton's Annotated Code of Ohio

Anderson's General Code of Ohio, 1910, Pt. 3/4, has a comparison table at page 2983.