Kravitz and Guerra
The 50 American states are apart sovereigns with their ain state constitutions and state governments. They hold comprehensive ability to make laws covering anything not preempted by the federal Constitution, federal statutes, or outside accords ratified by the federal Senate.
The law of most of the states is supported the common law of England; the leading light exception is Louisiana, whose law is based upon the Napoleonic Code. The handing over of time has led to state courts and legislatures amplifying, overruling, or changing the case law; as a result, the laws of any given state invariably differ from the laws of its sister states.
A lot of American states have statute some or all of their statutory law into legal codes. Codification was an idea borrowed from the civil law through the attempts of American lawyer David Dudley Field.
NY's codes are known as "Laws." California and Texas simply call them "Codes." Additional states apply conditions such as "Revised Statutes" or "Compiled Statutes" for their compilations. CA, NY, and TX have separate subject-specific codes, while all other states and the federal government use a single code shared into numbered claims.