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statute law

statute law noun: a law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.

Noun

statute law (plural statute laws)

  1. (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.
  2. (uncountable) The complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.
    Synonyms:
    statutory law

statute law meaning in Tamil and Kannada

statute law in Tamil

நியதிச்சட்டம்

statute law in Kannada

ಸಭಾಶಾಸನ, ಲಿಖಿತ ಶಾಸನ, ಲಿಖಿತ ದಾಖಲಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟ ಶಾಸನಗಳು

Synonyms of statute law

Forms of statute law

pluralstatute laws

Questions about statute law

What does statute law mean?
Statute law means a law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.
What is statute law in Tamil?
Statute law in Tamil is நியதிச்சட்டம். See Statute law meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is statute law?
Statute law is a noun.
What is the plural of statute law?
The plural of statute law is statute laws.

Words near statute law in the dictionary

  1. statute acres
  2. statute book
  3. statute books
  4. statute fair
  5. statute fairs
  6. statute law
  7. statute laws
  8. statute mile
  9. statute miles
  10. statute of frauds
  11. statute of limitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: statute law (page history and authors); statute law (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); statute law (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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