Yikes. The first lines of all four laws are massive run-on sentences.

Unfortunately for people trying to understand laws, that's usually where they put the primary purpose of the law. The rest is clarification, how to enforce the law, how it works in relation to other laws. That kind of thing. If you want to know what a law is all about, read the first line.

Now read it again…because there's no way you understood 18th-century legalese on the first try.