Connecticut Statutes & Acts

The following list includes major revisions of Connecticut Statutes dating back to 1650. These items are all available at the Connecticut State Library. Links are provided to resources that are freely available online. Some revisions are available through our database subscriptions; Heinonline (remote access with a CT State Library card) and Making of Modern Law: Primary Resources (available at the library).

For a more detailed list, including supplements between revisions, please see Tables VII and VIII in The Connecticut Legal Research Handbook by Lawrence G. Cheeseman and Arlene C. Bielefield (call number: Law Ref KFC3675 .C44 1992). 

• 1650, Code of Laws, Established by the General Court.
  • Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony 
  • The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, volume 1, pages 509-563.

• 1673, The Book of General Laws, for the People within the Jurisdiction of Connecticut: Collected Out of the Records of the General Court, Lately Revised, and with some Emendations and Additions Established and Published by the Authority of the General Court of Connecticut, holden at Hartford in October 1672.​

• 1702, Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in New England. 
  • Reprinted in Acts and Laws of his Majesties Colony of Connecticut in New England.

• 1750, Acts and Laws of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New-England, in America. 
  • ​Available at the library through the Making of Modern Law: Primary Resources database.

• 1784, Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America.

• 1796, Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America.
  • ​Available through the Heinonline database. 
  • Second edition, 1805, is available online.

• 1808, The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut. Book I. 

• 1821, The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut, as Revised and Enacted by the General Assembly, in May 1821 to which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Connecticut.

• 1849, The Revised Statutes of the State of Connecticut, to Which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Connecticut. 

• 1865, The General Statutes of the State of Connecticut to Which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Connecticut. 

• 1875, Revision of 1875, The General Statutes of the State of Connecticut.

• 1888, The General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision of 1887; In Force January First, 1888.​​

• 1902, The General Statutes of Connecticut. Revision of 1902 in Force July First, 1902.

• 1918, The General Statutes of Connecticut. Revision of 1918 in Force July 1st, 1918. 

• 1930, The General Statutes of Connecticut. Revision of 1930 in Force September 1, 1930. 

• 1949, The General Statutes of Connecticut. Revision of 1949. In Force January 15, 1949. 

• 1958, The General Statutes of Connecticut. Revision of 1958 In Force January 15, 1959.
  • ​Available in print at the CT State Library.