"statute law" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: statute laws [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} statute law (plural statute laws)
  1. (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. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Law Related terms: common law Translations (a law enacted by a legislative body): 成文法 (chéngwénfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), säädös (Finnish), droit législatif [masculine] (French), Gesetzesrecht [neuter] (German), 成文法 (seibunhō) (alt: せいぶんほう) (Japanese), стату́тное пра́во (statútnoje právo) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-statute_law-en-noun-ZbAEjf5F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 79 21 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'a law enacted by a legislative body': 88 12
  2. (law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Law Synonyms (the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction): statutory law
    Sense id: en-statute_law-en-noun-TDQA0HTR Topics: law Disambiguation of 'the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction': 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (complete corpus of legislatively-enacted laws): säädösoikeus (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'complete corpus of legislatively-enacted laws': 46 54

Inflected forms

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