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Definition of Statute

Statute 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. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair. Related Definitions: Act, All, Also, An, As, Assemblage, Being, By, Called, Commanding, Common, Corporation, Country, Declaring, Distinction, Expressed, Fair, Farming, For, Founder, Held, Hired, In, Intended, Law, Legislation, Legislature, Of, Or, Permanent, Positive, Possibly, Prohibiting, Purpose, Requisite, Rule, See, Something, State, Statute, The, Under, University, Used, Will, With, Written

Statute Quotations But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that. Clarence Thomas While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. John Boehner We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time. Richard Ben-Veniste When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. Robert Bork In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. Margaret Spellings

Statute Translations statute in Dutch is statuut statute in French is statut statute in German is Satzung statute in Spanish is estatuto statute in Swedish is lag, stadga

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