content: Part of the reason laws look so inscrutable is that the average layperson doesn't have the full context when looking at something. Eg, you might not register a difference between "dwelling" and "premises" if the two are never right next to each other, but the difference would easily be crucial to a statute regarding the relationship between a landlord and his tenant; the same goes with the named laws: it may well have been amended to the point of needing a new name without ever actually getting one. There's also the issue of case law, which can result in certain terms of art being defined and even baked into legislation without ever appearing in any legal code.