Badger’s General Index

In 1885 Wilfred Badger published his Statutes of New Zealand, 1842 1884. He
compiled 511 Acts and ordinances in two volumes, a total of 1,782 pages. the
volumes contain a general index of 52 pages of two columns. It is quite detailed.

Badger explained the value of the index in his preface:

“the General Index will be found especially useful in many ways, and to all classes of
readers, for, in order to render it so, every ordinance and Act, from 1842 to 1884
inclusive, has been carefully considered, and every matter capable of being condensed
and likely to be of service, has been condensed and entered, and often cross-entered or
re-entered in different places, so as to ensure to this index, in the hands of Justices,
Solicitors, and others, in outlying districts, a value which it could not otherwise have.”

He also produced a one-page guide on how to use the index.

In 1892 Badger produced an updated version of his statutes, this time in four
volumes, but this time with a rather shorter and coarser-grained index.

• Lawi Legal Index
• Henry Smythies’ Analytical Digest
• Curnin’s Index
• Index to the 1908 NZ Consolidated Statutes
• Index volume of the 1931 NZ Reprint
• Index to Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation
• Subject Index to South Australian Legislation
• Iowa Subject Index
• United States Code Annotated
• United Kingdom Index to the Statutes
• Index to the Revised Statutes of Canada
• List of New Zealand Reports
• American Digest System
• Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Ontario Edition
• Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Western Edition
• List of Australian Reports
• U.S. Digests

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Mentioned in these Entries

American Digest System, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Ontario Edition, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Western Edition, Curnin’s Index, Henry Smythies’ Analytical Digest, Index to Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation, Index to the 1908 NZ Consolidated Statutes, Index to the Revised Statutes of Canada, Index volume of the 1931 NZ Reprint, Iowa Subject Index, List of Australian Reports, List of New Zealand Reports, Subject Index to South Australian Legislation, U.S. Digests, United Kingdom Index to the Statutes, United States Code Annotated.