Definitions for statute

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statute stat·ute

Spelling: [stach-oot, -oo t]

IPA: /ˈstætʃ ut, -ʊt/

Statute is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in statute (aestttu).

Definitions for statute

noun

1. Law. an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document. the document in which such an enactment is expressed.
2. International Law. an instrument annexed or subsidiary to an international agreement, as a treaty.
3. a permanent rule established by an organization, corporation, etc., to govern its internal affairs.

Origin of statute

1250-1300; Middle English statut Old French estatut Late Latin statūtum, noun use of neuter of Latin statūtus (past participle of statuere to make stand, set up, derivative of status

Examples for statute

According to the memo, Miller then asked what the statute of limitations in Illinois was and to define what the allegations meant.

In 1891 a bill was presented to enfranchise women by statute.

A statute, in 1791, expressly forbade the whipping of female vagrants.

Another bombshell: There is no statute of limitations on rape in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Those excuses would do little to dissuade those enforcing the statute, if the U.S. had concrete proof of the suspected killings.

No precedent, no English statute, could stand against the Constitution.

There is no statute which compels a man to take an estate against his will.

Pennsylvania, where the assault is alleged to have taken place, has a 12-year statute of limitations on sexual assault.

It helped too that crime was no longer at the top of voter concerns, but the statute of limitations apparently has run out.

They were referred to in the "statute of Labourers," passed in the year 1349.