Statute

Definition:

• (n.) An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
• (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
• (a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.

Compare statute with other words:

codification vs. statute

principle vs. statute

ordinances vs. statute

status vs. statute

statute vs. treaty

stature vs. statute

cessavit vs. statute

revivor vs. statute

content vs. statute

precept vs. statute

regulation vs. statute

legislation vs. statute

decree vs. statute

slavic vs. statute

constitution vs. statute

statue vs. statute

processioning vs. statute

nullity vs. statute

legislate vs. statute

statute vs. statutory

society vs. statute

legislature vs. statute

purview vs. statute

preamble vs. statute

gloss vs. statute

proposition vs. statute

schedule vs. statute

injunction vs. statute

ordinance vs. statute

act vs. statute

nautical vs. statute

law vs. statute