Synonym: act, bill, charter, decree, enactment, law, legislation, measure, ordinance, regulation, rule. Similar words: status, statue, constitute, state, estate, statement, statistics, devastating. Meaning: ['stætʃuːt] n. an act passed by a legislative body. adj. enacted by a legislative body.
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1 Protection for the consumer is laid down by statute.
2 The Bill could reach the statute book by the summer if it attracts the support of Home Office ministers.
3 This archaic law remained on the statute books until last year.
4 Penalties are laid down in the statute .
5 It's not yet on the statute book .
6 The wording of the statute is ambiguous.
7 Corporal punishment was banned by statute in 1987.
8 Local authorities are required by statute to provide care homes for the elderly.
9 The new statute covers the care for, bringing up and protection of children.
10 You have to understand the disorderly conduct statute....
11 Much depends upon the statute creating the offence.
12 No remedy was provided by the statute for enforcement.
13 Statute takes precedence over contract and other legal obligations.
14 The Conservative government resolved the issue by statute.
15 The statute gives him no such say.
16 Such conduct would violate a federal extortion statute.
17 Why is a particular statute regarded as valid?
18 As such,[www.Sentencedict.com] they were regulated by statute.
19 This statute originated the office of administrator.
20 Each state statute that mandates reporting of child abuse or neglect specifies the procedures reporters are required to follow.
21 The statute referred to relatives having a claim for damages when a person died from injuries sustained because of a negligent act.
22 An act that is destructive to the environment may be criminalized by statute.
23 The government would like to see this new law on the statute book as soon as possible.
24 The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers' Statute.
25 It applies, for instance, to a local authority which is required by statute to receive sewage into its sewers.
26 No formal, authoritative documents set forth these rules, and they find no embodiment in statute law.
27 Whatever answer is given on the assignment point, there will be some untidiness within the statute.
28 Whether it is so or not is a question of construction of the particular statute concerned.
29 The Ministry of Railways and the national monopolies commission will draw up revised conditions of carriage to reflect the new statute.
30 Also, there is a danger that in such a sensitive area a statute may well be a clumsy approach initially.
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