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statute law

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Meaning

(law, 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.

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

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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law. Elbert Hubbard

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker. Annie Besant

The statute law is the will of the legislature in writing; the common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time; all our law began by consent of the legislature, and whether it is now law by usage or writing, it is the same thing. John Eardley Wilmot

Australian federal and state governments' statute law and associated regulations provided for the removal from their birth families and communities of known mixed-race Aboriginal children, or those who visibly appeared mixed. Source: Internet

Statutory law or statute law is written law set down by a body of legislature or by a singular legislator (in the case of an absolute monarchy ). Source: Internet

For instance, the tort of negligence is not derived from statute law in most common law jurisdictions. Source: Internet

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