Synonyms:
codified, statute(p)
Meaning: enacted by a legislative body; "statute law"; "codified written laws"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
legislative_act, statute
Meaning: an act passed by a legislative body
Usage examples
Like many laws upon our statute books, these are being persistently and intelligently violated.
"You must know--" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!" That statute is obsolete quite! Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends On an ancient manorial right.
Never was there a society less ungenerously prudish, and yet there were cases--this, one of them--which transgressed all conventional rule. Like a crime which no statute had ever contemplated, it stood out self-accused and self-condemned.