statutory law

[ stach-oo-tawr-ee law ]

noun

1. the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.

statutory law

1. A law or group of laws passed by a legislature or other official governing bodies. ( Compare common law .)

Word History and Origins

Origin of statutory law¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

A few minor changes have been made in the State statutory law since 1885.

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The compromise, they reflected, was merely a matter75 of statutory law.

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Statutory law need not profess to be consistent with itself, or with the theory adopted by judicial decisions.

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In earlier times this is both statutory law and the common law of the courts.

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This is the statutory law, but the wife by obtaining a decree in chancery may possess all the rights of a femme sole.

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