Synonyms for statute
ˈstætʃ ut, -ʊtstatute

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1. statute

   Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

   Synonyms:
   canon, code, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, formula, jurisprudence, law, legislation, mandate, order, ordinance, polity, principle, regulation, rule

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1. statute

   Synonyms:
   enactment, law, act, decree, ordinance, legislation, edict

   Antonyms:
   custom, conventionality, prescription, use, precedent, usage

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1. legislative act, statuteadjective

   an act passed by a legislative body

   Synonyms:
   legislative act

   Antonyms:
   unwritten

2. codified, statute(p)adjective

   enacted by a legislative body

   "statute law"; "codified written laws"

   Antonyms:
   unwritten

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1. statutenoun

   Synonyms:
   law, act, enactment, ordinance

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1. statutenoun

   Synonyms:
   law

   Associated words:
   statutable, statutory, purview

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1. List of paraphrases for "statute":

   status, statutes, basic, estatuto, statut, regulations, act, law, charter

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1. Jerry Nadler:

   It is necessary... to simply pause the statute of limitations so that the President -- any president -- can be held to account for The President or her actions and to ensure that the presidency is not a get-out-of-jail free card.

2. Randy Evans:

   I just don't believe that the only way that you can guard against violating the FERPA statute is by having a lawyer half a state away reviewing every email that is up for consideration to be released, i think that government is using the cost as a way to place records out of reach of ordinary folks.

3. Lenny Bruce:

   Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

4. Nathan Arnold:

   Really what Supreme Court is limiting here is creative, broad interpretations of statute.

5. Debora Kristensen:

   There's a reason no court has ever done this. It's because the statute was not intended to apply to these situations.