statute law
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
statute law (plural statute laws)
- (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.
- (law, uncountable) The complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.
Synonyms[edit]
- (the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction): statutory law
Translations[edit]
a law enacted by a legislative body
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complete corpus of legislatively-enacted laws
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