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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121 It is specifically about actions by the Crown under a statute providing a prescribed means of law enforcement.
122 The New Jersey statute is not such a quarantine law.
123 The second relevant statute concerns guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1983.
124 Appeal was the only corrective for a mistake by a High Court judge and that had been removed by statute.
125 Where an exchange is given power to make its rules by statute, those rules will normally have statutory status as well.
126 Normally, a body is subject to judicial review if it is the creation of statute and performs public law duties.
127 Pension Under statute you are required to make provision for your pension.
128 Unpalatable statute law may not be disregarded or rejected, merely because it is unpalatable.
129 Statute provides an appeals procedure against deportation, the non renewal of residence permits and other types of restrictions.
130 Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice.
131 The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers' Statute.
132 Although there was no compulsion for students to participate or even to be present,[http://sentencedict.com/statute.html] the courts ruled the statute unconstitutional.
133 The statute gives the independent counsel the opportunity to investigate anything that is perceived to be criminal.
134 In particular those articles of the statute survive which forbid cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
135 By then, the three-year statute of limitations may have expired.
136 A statute created an obligation on the defendant council to provide housing for homeless persons.
137 In the overall case, the four-year statute of limitations on alleged fraud, theft and financial elder abuse expires in February.
138 The purpose of the statute was to lessen the risk of cattle catching a contagious disease while in transit.
139 But she said it could continue efforts to seize billions of dollars in tobacco profits under the racketeering statute.
140 Under a trust for sale the trustees obviously can sell, and they are given by statute a discretionary power to retain.
141 Subject to limited minimum rights laid down by statute, which are explained below, there is often plenty of scope for negotiation.
142 In New Mexico, a state statute permits one minute of silent prayer at the beginning of school.
143 In this article, when appropriate, this implementing statute will be used as the relevant version of the Hague Rules.
144 But a judge dismissed the criminal case a few months later, because the statute of limitations had expired.
145 Reliance was also placed upon the power of absolute and immediate distress in the statute.
146 In 1357 he is required by statute to entrust the administration of the property to the near relations of the deceased.
147 Some of those old laws are still on the statute book.
148 The statute, in addition to its provision for silent meditation, authorized teachers to ask students whether they wished to pray.
149 Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible.
150 The statute confines itself to prohibiting the carriage of certain goods in interstate or foreign commerce.
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