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The section sign (§) is a typographical symbol for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. The section sign typically appears akin to a letter S stacked on top of another S. UseThe section sign is often used when referring to a specific section of a legal code. For example, in Bluebook style, "Title 16 of the United States Code Section 580p" becomes "16 U.S.C.

PilcrowPilcrowSymbol (¶) to identify a paragraph ¶oPilcrowIn UnicodeU+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN (¶)Different fromDifferent fromU+00A7 § SECTION SIGNRelatedSee also U+204B ⁋ REVERSED PILCROW SIGN U+2761 ❡ CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT U+2E3F ⸿ CAPITULUM U+2E4D ⹍ PARAGRAPHUS MARK Pilcrow in typefaces: Neue Helvetica, Arial, Consolas, Adobe Garamond Pro, Baskerville Old Face, Palatino Linotype, and Gentium In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a grapheme used to identify a paragraph.German languageGerman (Deutsch, pronounced [dɔɪ̯tʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, French autonomous region of Alsace and as well as a recognised national language in Namibia.Dagger (mark)Dagger (mark)Typographical symbol (†) † ‡ ⸸ ⹋oDaggerIn UnicodeU+2020 † DAGGER (†)U+2021 ‡ DOUBLE DAGGER (‡, ‡)U+2E38 ⸸ TURNED DAGGERU+2E4B ⹋ TRIPLE DAGGERDifferent fromDifferent fromU+271D ✝ LATIN CROSSU+2628 ☨ CROSS OF LORRAINE A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used.AsteriskAsteriskTypographical symbol (*)The asterisk (), *, is a typographical symbol that is a stylised image of a star. An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor words considered offensive.ParagraphA paragraph (from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos) 'to write beside') is a self-contained unit of discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. Though not required by the orthographic conventions of any language with a writing system, paragraphs are a conventional means of organizing extended segments of prose.Page (paper)Page (paper)One side (or both sides) of material used in documents or illustrative works Pages in a book A page is one side of a leaf (a sheet or half-sheet) of paper, parchment or other material (or electronic media) in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of sheets, on which text or illustrations can be printed, written or drawn, to create documents.BluebookBluebookThe Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is a style guide that prescribes the most widely used system in the United States. It is taught and used at a majority of law schools in the United States and is also used in a majority of federal courts. Legal publishers also use several "house" citation styles in their works. The Bluebook is compiled by the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review.Title 16 of the United States CodeTitle 16 of the United States CodeTitle 16 of the United States Code outlines the role of conservation in the United States Code.16 U.S.C.ch. 1—National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores (the "National Park Service Organic Act")16 U.S.C.ch. 1A—Historic Sites, Buildings, Objects, and Antiquities16 U.S.C.ch. 1B—Archaeological Resources Protection16 U.S.C.ch. 2—National Forests16 U.S.C.ch.List of typographical symbols and punctuation marksTypographical symbols and punctuation marks are used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below.Non-breaking spaceNon-breaking spaceIn word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space (), also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position. In some formats, including HTML, it also prevents consecutive whitespace characters from collapsing into a single space. Non-breaking space characters with other widths also exist.Section (typography)Section (typography)In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break. Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal the . In law, sections are divisions of legislation that may be deeply nested to as little as single sentences.Code of lawCode of lawA code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes. It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. Though the process and motivations for codification are similar in different common law and civil law systems, their usage is different.simoleonsimoleonRelated word or term.Section signsSection signsRelated word or term.

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