| 单词 | statute law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatute law Thesaurus » Categories » a. With defining word, indicating some one of the branches into which law, as an object of study or exposition, may be divided, according to the matter with which it is concerned, as commercial law, ecclesiastical law, etc., the law of banking, law of evidence, etc.; or according to the source from which it is derived, as statute law, customary law, case law (see case n.1), etc. See also canon law n. at canon n.1 1b, civil law n., common law n. and adj., martial law n. statute law statute law n. a law contained in a statute; (also) the system of law set down by a legislature in written statutes, as distinguished from common law; = statutory law n. at statutory adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > statute statutec1300 statutec1300 statutec1300 statute lawa1500 stat.1592 scite1656 stativea1772 society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > statute statute lawa1500 statutory law1678 a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 2863 For statute lauche fyrst ordanyt he Þat Crist a God sulde honowrit be. 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. Ev He would haue me a cuckold by law forsooth, by statute law. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2443 in Wks. (1640) III There is no Statute Law of the Kingdome bidds you bee a Poet, against your will. a1653 R. Filmer Patriarcha (1680) iii. §11. 115 What is hitherto affirmed of the Dependency and Subjection of the Common Law to the Soveraign Prince, the same may be said as well of all Statute Laws. 1703 W. Nicolson London Diaries 14 Jan. (1985) 171 The Judges..were to expound all Statute-Laws according to the literal and Grammatical sense of its Words. 1769 F. Norton Speech in Sir H. Cavendish Deb. (1841) I. 432 The common law is as much the law as the statute law. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 361 The statute-law is full of authorities in their favour. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ii. 10 The system of jurisprudence..is in a great measure independent of statute-law. 1915 Times 3 Feb. 14/2 A corporate body..defined by English Statute Law as a ‘person’, cannot be other than English. 1995 New Statesman & Society 17 Mar. 26/1 An officer is constrained by statute law in so far as the Police Discipline Regulations make it an offence not to carry out a ‘lawful order’. < as lemmas |
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