A short title can be contrasted by owning a hanker title (properly, a "title"), which sets retired a to the full orbit of the Work cursively. E.g., a short title of the House of Lords Act 1999 is House of Lords Work 1999, however its hanker title is An Work to limit membership of a Home of Lords by virtue of the hereditary baronage; to produce related provision all about disqualifications for vote at elections to, & for membership of, the Home of Commons; & for attached purposes.

Rather more descriptive components of an work (like a preamble, section headings, side notes, & yearn title), the short title seldom infects a operative provisions of an Work, & rarely contains a sufficiently clear statement of Parliament's intention to resolve issues where operative provisions come indecipherable or even ambiguous.

Numerous early Acts were enacted while forgoing a short title, & the yearn title was wont to identity that Work, although short titles were given to numbers of of the extant Acts at late dates. For instance, a Bill of Rights was given that short title (without a year) per Short Titles Act 1896; previously, it was known by its yearn title, An Work Declaring a Rights & Liberties of a Subject & Subsiding the Succession of the Crown. A yearn title for older Acts is occasionally termed its rubric because it was sometimes printed inside red.

An lesson of the prolonged short title is the "Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Act (1868) Amendment Act (1879) Amendment Act 1880". A select few Acts develop other than of these short title: a Microscopic Debts Work 1846 (Nine&10 Vict. c.95 (1846)) is also referred to as a County Courts Work 1846.