'Legal Research and Citation Style in USA'. Scilicet ('it may be known') is sometimes rendered using a § mark instead of 'viz.'.In his English translation of 1930, Paul Selver translated it as ' red tape'. In Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, § is used repeatedly to mean ' bureaucracy'. The modern form of the sign, with its modern meaning, has been in use since the 13th century. Others have theorized that it is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek παράγραφος ( paragraphos), a catch-all term for a class of punctuation marks used by scribes with diverse shapes and intended uses. Some scholars, however, are skeptical of this explanation.

Two possible origins are often posited for the section sign: most probably, that it is a ligature formed by the combination of two S glyphs (from the Latin signum sectiōnis). United Kingdom (Mac): § (key left of 1).Romania: AltGr+ m (Legacy) AltGr+ p (Standard/Programmers).Some keyboards include dedicated ways to access §: US international setting in Windows: AltGr+ ⇧ Shift+ S (with this setting, the right-hand Alt key acts as an AltGr key).Windows: Alt+ 0167 or Alt+ 21 ( code page dependent).Vim: Ctrl+ k ⇧ Shift+ S ⇧ Shift+ E (a Vim digraph).URL Encoding: %A7 (Latin1) or %C2%A7 (UTF8).ChromeOS (with International/Extended keyboard setting) AltGr+ ⇧ Shift+ S.The sign has the Unicode code point U+00A7 § SECTION SIGN and many platforms and languages have methods to reproduce it. The Austrian Ministry of Justice used the symbol in its logo for a time. The section sign is itself sometimes a symbol of the justice system, in much the same way as the Rod of Asclepius is used to represent medicine. It is common practice to follow the section sign with a non-breaking space so that the symbol is kept with the section number being cited. It may also be used with footnotes when asterisk *, dagger †, and double dagger ‡ have already been used on a given page. (pages) is the plural of p., meaning page. For example, '§§ 13–21' would be read as 'sections 13 through 21', much as pp.

When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural 'sections'. Consequently, in those cases '§' may be read as ' paragraph', and may occasionally be described as a 'paragraph sign', but this is a description of its usage, not a formal name. While § is usually read in spoken English as the word section, many other languages use the word 'paragraph' exclusively to refer to a section of a document (especially of legal text), and use other words to describe a paragraph in the English sense. The section sign is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), which is sometimes also referred to in English as the 'paragraph sign', to reference a specific paragraph within a section of a document. For example, in Bluebook style, ' Title 16 of the United States Code Section 580p' becomes '16 U.S.C. The section sign is often used when referring to a specific section of a legal code. Use Former logo of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice In other languages it may be called the paragraph symbol (for example, German: Paragrafzeichen). It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. Part 37.The section sign ( §) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. Official Seal, Names and Symbolsįederal law prohibits use of any symbol, emblem, seal, insignia or badge of any entity of the Department of Treasury (including the Internal Revenue Service) or any colorable imitation of such words, initials, symbols, emblems, or seals in connection with any advertisement, solicitation, business activity, or product where such use could reasonably be interpreted as conveying the false impression that such advertisement, solicitation, business activity, or product is in any manner approved, endorsed, sponsored, or authorized by, or associated with, the Department of the Treasury or any organization within the Department. If copyrighted material appears on the site, or is reached through a link on this site, the copyright holder must be consulted before the material may be reproduced. Content on this website that was created or maintained by federal employees in the course of their duties is not subject to copyright and may be freely copied.

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