statute law

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statute law

A law established by legislative enactment.

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statute law

1. (Law) a law enacted by a legislative body

2. (Law) a particular example of this

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statute law - law enacted by a legislative body

legislation

lawmaking, legislating, legislation - the act of making or enacting laws

enabling legislation - legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law

federal job safety law, occupational safety and health act - a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment

statute book - a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction

Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice Department, Justice - the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

civil law - the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation

unamended - (of legislation) not amended

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The precise extent of the common law, and the statute law, the maritime law, the ecclesiastical law, the law of corporations, and other local laws and customs, remains still to be clearly and finally established in Great Britain, where accuracy in such subjects has been more industriously pursued than in any other part of the world.

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Treasury opted to have insurance security in form of a policy bought from SACE well aware that section 20 of the Insurance Act had been amended in 2017, through a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Act.

Rotich, Thugge violated law in dams payment

It became from then on Statute Law that the UK would depart from the EU.

Time to stop calling yourself 'Remainer' LETTERS

President Uhuru Kenyatta on July 5 signed into law the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2019 which among others amended the Prevention of Terrorism Act expanding the counter-terrorism agency's mandate.

Lobby groups reject amended counterterrorism law

* Bill 29: Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 which corrects inconsistencies and errors in the statutes of the Northwest Territories.

Northwest Territories

"As a President of Uzbekistan and a guarantee of the Constitution, I consider the ensuring supremacy of statute law, protection of rights and freedom of every citizen in our society as a sacred duty," Mirziyoyev said.

Uzbekistan marks 25th Constitution Day

We maintain, repair and enhance assets to make them inherently safer, and inspect, test and certify structures in accordance with standards set out by statute law or the manufacturer.

Let's Shape Your World Together

That was undertaken in the excellent article 'The Osmond Case: Common Law and Statute Law' by then Chairperson of the Law Reform Commission of Victoria David St L.

Paul Finn's, "Statutes and The Common Law."

The particular interactions between statutes and the non-statutory law of trusts can be located on the larger canvas of the relationship between the common law, used in its broadest sense, and the statute law generally, a relationship which Gleeson CJ once described as 'symbiotic'.

Trusts and statutes

In the UK, the common law and statute law is applied in public sex environments where passersby will likely chance upon other people having sex.

Auckland Gay Men Warned of Having Sex in Bushes of Public Park

Judges have to apply the law as it stands, whether they personally agree with it or not, and this is so especially where statute law governs the matters in issue.

Judges are not puppets; Views of the North

So much then for our PM's 2017 veiled in/ out referendum which isn't even written into statute law.