Statute

(n.) 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.

(a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

(a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.

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• And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn dealer has ever yet enjoyed was bestowed upon it by this statute. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This statute leaves them subject to all the old duties which had ever been imposed upon them, the old subsidy, and one per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to another, even in the same place. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• By the same statute, a great number of foreign drugs for dyers use are exempted from all duties upon importation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Likewise no statute can end white slavery. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon every parish. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• These bills were put upon the Statute Book. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They are, Miss Eyre, though they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In the composition of this statute, the legislature itself seems to have been as negligent as the copiers were in the transcription of the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The last words of the statute are reliqua judicabis secundum praescripta, habendo respectum ad pretium bladi. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In September, Sir Edward Carson was denouncing the placing of the Home Rule Bill upon the Statute Book. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What say our statutes, and how do our brethren observe them? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Long before he undertoo k the regular study of the law, he spent long hours poring ove r the revised statutes of the State in which he was living. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Living forces, not statutes or clubs, must work that change. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The necessity of these temporary statutes sufficiently demonstrates the impropriety of this general one. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• May not this constant dodging or hurdling of statutes be a sign that there is something the matter with the statutes? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For the honour of the national humanity, it is to be hoped that neither of these statutes was ever executed. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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