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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31 The southern states now relied on tightening enforcement measures already on the statute books and increasing the alertness of the patrols.
32 The court must first determine whether the particular statute gave rise to the right to sue for damages.
33 The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over.
34 It would depend upon the construction of the statute whether Parliament intended questions of law to be left to an inferior court.
35 Until the beginning of this year, Congress had not applied to itself a single civil-rights or workplace statute passed this century.
36 But in the field of statute law the judge must be obedient to the will of Parliament as expressed in its enactments.
37 The bill signed by Leavitt attempts to ban gay student groups without running afoul of this statute.
38 Children's services were the responsibility of one department, required by statute.
39 The Bill will get Royal Assent later this year when it will officially go on to the statute books.
40 Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993.
41 Finally, the Pennsylvania statute requires every facility performing abortions to report its activities to the Commonwealth.
42 Consequently, case and statute law was made which prevented distribution of capital invested.Sentencedict.com
43 The legislation went on to the statute book in July 1986 and the new system was finally introduced in April 1988.
44 A dispute over what they do mean is, in principle, like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute.
45 Yet the immediate impact of the statute was much less dramatic than this longer-term picture might suggest.
46 Statute law consists of the words that Parliament has enacted.
47 The governor had not requested federal aid and, in their view, no federal statute had been violated.
48 Some items of expenditure are fixed by statute and there is no room for debate about how much is to be spent.
49 The principle applies not only to taxing statutes but all forms of statute law.
50 It may well be that indoctrination in the techniques of terror to destroy the Government would be indictable under either statute.
51 Alternatively, the statute may provide for the reasonable practicability of precautions.
52 Rhode Island adopted at statute under which the state paid a 15 percent annual supplement to teachers in nonpublic elementary schools.
53 The child protection conference is not a creature of statute.
54 I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
55 They were required by statute to keep their pipes at a certain pressure level.
56 First, it was unsuccessful on the correct interpretation of the relevant statute, the Police Act 1964.
57 The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book.
58 The changing nature of the planning context, through case law, government policy and statute, demands continuing attention.
59 In some cases, however, prosecutors may have thought about the five-year statute of limitations problem and done something about it.
60 The statute requires, however, not a threat of immediate danger, but rather an immediate need to act to protect.
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