statute

Definition:
1. A law that is passed by a parliament, council, etc. and formally written down.
2. A formal rule of an organization or institution.

Use 'statute' in a sentence:

• 1. The Bill could reach the statute book by the summer if it attracts the support of Home Office ministers.
• 2. Fourth, development and perception of statute form;
• 3. Is the statute unconstitutional?
• 4. More controversially, Mr Straw told the Commons that any new controls would have to be imposed by statute.
• 5. It's not yet on the statute book.
• 6. Shouldthe statute against posthumous awarding be removed?
• 7. They argued about whether the statute mandating the death penalty is unconstitutional.
• 8. Folk Law Function in Statute Law Change.
• 9. Generally these statutes apply only to wastes from reactors outside the enacting state.
• 10. The third chapter introduces the content 、 characteristics of systemic Urban Design statute guarantee system.
• 11. Research statutes, development trends and key technical problems of near space flying vehicles.
• 12. 《 Principle of Statute Philosophy 》 is about the philosophy of rights.
• 13. The independence of the judiciary in France is guaranteed by statute.
• 14. Like almost every other crime, there is a statute of limitations on bad taste.
• 15. The rest have fallen foul of Switzerland's five-year statute of limitations for such crimes.
• 16. Big countries such as China, India and Russia have not signed up to its founding statute.
• 17. For the others, the statute of limitations has expired or prosecutors have said there is not enough evidence.
• 18. The sole purpose of this statute is to promote mining.
• 19. The influence shows as follows: promote new development of statute in English private international law;
• 20. Senegal has ratified these treaties and has undertaken to respect the Organization’s statute.
• 21. The bill could reach the statute book by the summer.
• 22. The Academic Council has passed a statute of marking system.
• 23. These statutes often make the contracts void andthe parties involved to various penalties and forfeitures.
• 24. Penalties are laid down in the statute.
• 25. SERBIAN nationalists are outraged over a new autonomy statute for Vojvodina, their northern province.
• 26. Second people are used to studying law in statute book.
• 27. Any reform of the Agency's work should be carried out within the framework of the Statute.
• 28. The statute increased the taxes we must pay.
• 29. And since a law is also called a statute, thus we have the statute mile.
• 30. Germany still has no insider-dealing offence in its statute books.
• 31. Citizen suit provision is significant in American federal environmental statutes.
• 32. Four years later, the State repealed the prior statute.
• 33. A national statute might set a standard States would follow.
• 34. The Statute of the Family Management of Non-state Run Enterprise.
• 35. The statute is the framework that they have chosen and that they have chosen by a wide margin.
• 36. What is written in the statute book is not necessarily an indication of how the law will be applied, however.
• 37. The others have all been dropped, because of the statute of limitations or the immunity rule.
• 38. These statutes all offer some degree of protection to natural areas.
• 39. Study on the Statute Policy of High-tech Enterprise Applying Executive Stock Options Prompting System.
• 40. The rules of WTO are rigorous challenge to Chinese economic statutes.
• 41. Statutes of university have different legal characteristics from different perspectives.
• 42. The statute applies to payments of "anything of value."
• 43. They review the legality of state administrative rules under state statutes.
• 44. If the statute of limitations has run, the plaintiff is without redress.
• 45. The next section will consider this environmental statute in detail.
• 46. The statute of limitations on crimes other than homicide is five years, so Reyes cannot be prosecuted for the attack.
• 47. The wording of this statute was the subject of controversy.
• 48. Two of the three objecting Justices—Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas—agreed with this Constitutional logic but disagreed about which Arizona rules conflicted with the federal statute.
• 49. State statutes must conform to the respective state's constitution.
• 50. The new statute covers the care for, bringing up and protection of children.
• 51. The new statute covers the care for, raising, and protection of children.
• 52. Corporal punishment was banned by statute in 1987.
• 53. Under the statutes of the university they had no power to dismiss him.