Statute
['stætjuːt;-tʃuːt] or ['stætʃut]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
(a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
(a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
伯纳黛特校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Law, act, enactment, ordinance.
乔治娜手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Enactment, law, act, decree, ordinance, legislation, edict
ANT:Custom, conventionality, prescription, use, precedent, usage
編輯:尼特
解釋/意思:
n. a law expressly enacted by the legislature (as distinguished from a customary law or law of use and wont): a written law: the act of a corporation or its founder intended as a permanent rule or law.—adj. Stat′ūtable made by statute: according to statute.—adv. Stat′ūtably.—ns. Stat′ute-book a record of statutes or enacted laws; Stat′ute-cap (Shak.) a kind of cap enjoined to be worn by a statute passed in 1571 in behalf of the cap-makers; Stat′ute-roll an enrolled statute.—adj. Stat′ūtory enacted by statute: depending on statute for its authority.
伯尼編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn dealer has ever yet enjoyed was bestowed upon it by this statute. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This statute leaves them subject to all the old duties which had ever been imposed upon them, the old subsidy, and one per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to another, even in the same place. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By the same statute, a great number of foreign drugs for dyers use are exempted from all duties upon importation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Likewise no statute can end white slavery. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon every parish. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- These bills were put upon the Statute Book. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They are, Miss Eyre, though they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In the composition of this statute, the legislature itself seems to have been as negligent as the copiers were in the transcription of the other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The last words of the statute are reliqua judicabis secundum praescripta, habendo respectum ad pretium bladi. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In September, Sir Edward Carson was denouncing the placing of the Home Rule Bill upon the Statute Book. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What say our statutes, and how do our brethren observe them? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Long before he undertoo k the regular study of the law, he spent long hours poring ove r the revised statutes of the State in which he was living. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Living forces, not statutes or clubs, must work that change. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The necessity of these temporary statutes sufficiently demonstrates the impropriety of this general one. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- May not this constant dodging or hurdling of statutes be a sign that there is something the matter with the statutes? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For the honour of the national humanity, it is to be hoped that neither of these statutes was ever executed. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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