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Statute law   /stˈætʃut lɔ/   Listen
Statute law

noun
1.
Law enacted by a legislative body.  Synonym: legislation.






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"Statute law" Quotes from Famous Books



... a constant play of opposing influences upon the judge. As an upholder of the law he becomes a formalist and a reactionary. The insistent demands of humanity which the statute law can never satisfy, tend to make him a revolutionist. The saving element for him is that he is only a part of a system for which he is ...
— The Man in Court • Frederic DeWitt Wells

... meschans favoris par Balthazar Gerbier. Glanvil's way to Happines, 10 pence. The Bischop of Sarisburies animadversions on an Arminian book intitled God's love to mankind. Joannis a Sande decisiones Frisicae, given me by Pitmedden. The Statute Law of England from Magna Carta to the year 1640. Collected by Ferdinando Pulton. The first part of Litleton's Instituts of the Law of England, with S. Edw. Coke's commentarie, both receaved from Mr. James Lauder, shireff clerk ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder

... Thus stood the statute law against gaming down to the year 1845, when, in consequence of the report of the select committee which sat on the subject, a new enactment was promulgated, which is in force at ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... inscription reads thus: 'No quarters for allopathy in particular and none at all for any schools of medicine farther than surgery, and war to the hilt on three-fourths of that as practiced in the present day. The use of the knife in everything and for everything must be stopped; not by statute law, but through a higher education of the masses, which will give them more confidence in nature's ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still



Words linked to "Statute law" :   lawmaking, civil law, legislating, Justice Department, federal job safety law, jurisprudence, unamended, DoJ, occupational safety and health act, justice, Department of Justice, statute book, enabling legislation, law



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