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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151 The new statute will stop trade unionists trying to persuade workers in unconnected companies to take sympathy action.
152 The Basic Law took effect subject to the Occupation Statute, which came into force at the same time.
153 Despite the recent advent of statute law in this area, there remains no statutory definition of what constitutes insider trading.
154 But appeals, deals and the expiry of the statute of limitations whittled the number in jail down to fewer than 10.
155 They imposed a new, six-month statute of limitations, which few people, fired, without a job, could meet.
156 Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control.
157 The relevant statute empowered the council to pay such wages as it thought fit.
158 The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
159 Suppose that under this defence statute the Government makes an Order requisitioning land for anti-aircraft missile sites.
160 This is no mean feat as the statute has 108 sections divided into 12 separate parts, together with 15 schedules.
161 By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage.
162 A separate Consumer Sale and Loan Act was to be a consumer protection statute regulating credit advertising and consumer credit transactions.
163 Opposition by those in favour of the availability of abortion, however,[Sentence dictionary] meant that few such measures had progressed to the statute books.
164 But the death penalty is kept off the statute books by the one unanswerable and non-politically partisan argument against it.
165 So I repeat that this statute in its immediate operation is clearly within the Congress's constitutional power.
166 The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
167 Defendant waived sovereign immunity from this action by statute.
168 This statute created the National Wilderness Preservation System.
169 So what's the statute of limitations on this fight?
170 Four years later, the State repealed the prior statute.
171 From the view of statute law, the regulation of village and nongovernmental agreement should belong to folk law system, rather than state law system.
172 Our country must realize the civil law statute book and the modernization, must take highly the personal property rights protection, strengthens to the private property rights research.
173 The "honest services" statute, if taken seriously, "would seemingly cover a salaried employee's phoning in sick to go to a ball game, " fumes Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice.
174 Except as otherwise by statute the proponent of a rule or the burden of proof.
175 On the same day, October 7, 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action law suit challenging California's Arrestee DNA database statute.
176 As a special background of legal and acted as the constitutive law, The Statute Law of Qing dynasty had an important effect to the Law Merchant.
177 Agency action made reviewable by statute and final agency action for which there is no adequate remedy in a court are subject to judicial review.
178 We should pay attention to the establishment of law and statute and system, upbuild mature system of law and statute.
179 For the United Kingdom Criminal exceptions to the hearsay rule, this article is to carry out assessment in two parts, the common law and statute law of the exception.
180 Since the statute of frauds is a defense against enforcement of an oral contract for the sale of land or an interest in land, problems arise when an oral contract has been partially performed.
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