Reception statute

Hello little one! Have you ever played a game where you have to catch a ball that someone throws at you? Well, imagine that the ball is a law, and the people throwing it are lawmakers who want you to follow the law.

Now, when you catch the ball, you have to know what to do with it, right? Same with laws. When a state becomes part of a country, they have to decide if they want to follow the laws of that country or make their own laws.

A reception statute is a law that says the new state will adopt the laws of the country it's joining as its own, like catching the ball and deciding to play with it according to the rules of the game.

This means that if you move from one state to another, you don't have to learn a whole new set of laws. The new state will follow the same laws as the other states in that country.

So, a reception statute is like a game rule that says, if you're joining the game, you have to play by the same rules as everyone else. Pretty neat, huh?