Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable)A law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.

    Gesetzesrecht

    стату́тное пра́воstatútnoje právo

    law enacted by a legislative body

  2. (uncountable)The complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.

Translations

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a law enacted by a legislative body:
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a law enacted by a legislative body:

Forms

plural: statute laws
Singularstatute law
Pluralstatute laws

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Synonyms

2 synonyms
the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction:statutory law
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Word family

1 related words
Relatedcommon law

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