Statute
['stætjuːt;-tʃuːt] or ['stætʃut]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Law, act, enactment, ordinance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enactment, law, act, decree, ordinance, legislation, edict
ANT:Custom, conventionality, prescription, use, precedent, usage
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn dealer has ever yet enjoyed was bestowed upon it by this statute. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This statute leaves them subject to all the old duties which had ever been imposed upon them, the old subsidy, and one per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to another, even in the same place. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By the same statute, a great number of foreign drugs for dyers use are exempted from all duties upon importation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Likewise no statute can end white slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon every parish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These bills were put upon the Statute Book. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are, Miss Eyre, though they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- 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. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The last words of the statute are reliqua judicabis secundum praescripta, habendo respectum ad pretium bladi. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In September, Sir Edward Carson was denouncing the placing of the Home Rule Bill upon the Statute Book. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What say our statutes, and how do our brethren observe them? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Living forces, not statutes or clubs, must work that change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The necessity of these temporary statutes sufficiently demonstrates the impropriety of this general one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- May not this constant dodging or hurdling of statutes be a sign that there is something the matter with the statutes? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For the honour of the national humanity, it is to be hoped that neither of these statutes was ever executed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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