1. statute - Noun
2. statute - Adjective
3. statute - Adjective Satellite
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.
An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHere was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country. Clement Attlee
The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal. Edwin Lefèvre
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason. John Knox
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. Cicero