| 词汇 | statute |
| 释义 | statute noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈstætʃ.uːt/ us /ˈstætʃ.uːt/ a law that has been formally approved and written down成文法;法令，法规 statute bookUK When a law is on or reaches the statute book, it has been formally approved and written down and can be used in a law court: 法典;法令全书;法规汇编 I doubt that such legislation will ever reach the statute book. Rules & laws administrative admiralty anti-bribery anti-regulatory anti-sodomy binding blue law humanitarian law invocation juridical juridically juristic land tenure legislation provision the rule of law Ts and Cs uncalled uncanonical unenforceable statute | American Dictionarystatute noun[ C/U ] us/ˈstætʃ·ut/ a law that has been formally approved and written down: [ U ]The salaries of most federal workers are set by statute. statutoryadjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈstætʃ·əˌtɔr·i, -ˌtoʊr·i/ statute | Business Englishstatute noun[ C or U ] LAWuk /ˈstætʃuːt/us a law that has been formally approved and recorded: Many state and federal statutes already cover identity theft. by statuteA Christmas bonus is not covered by statute as your wages and your holidays are. Examples of statutestatute Much of the documentation of this company was destroyed in a sixteenth-century fire, but there exists a copy of their reformed statutes, adopted in 1488. At present the only certainty is that privatization statutes were applied unevenly, over the course of decades, with inconsistent results. As a matter of fact, statutes unaffected by foreign influence in one way or another probably form the exception rather than the rule. In principle statutes might be limited by the natural law; but in effect they were supreme. Various early works are accorded particular standing by virtue of the absence of statutes or other written sources covering a particular area. Enforcement of the opium statutes and rules followed a similar balanced approach. The authorities had compounded their unpopularity among radicals by appearing to draw back from reform after publishing the emancipation statutes. Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way. Here the legislature, ex hypothesi, is acting within its constitutional powers and so, in that sense, its statutes are supreme. The plaintiffs knew what the statutes required of school systems but had a different idea about what the law required. Finally, social salience theory can support a story that gives maximum credence to the idea that statutes are useful things for societies. However, this move effectively denies the possibility of literalist misunderstanding of statutes, and therein lies the problem. Nonetheless, semantic realism applied to statutes has a certain appeal. However, there is still no room for the possibility of literalist misunderstanding of statutes. Legislative supremacy is unhelpful because the alternative to judicial invalidation of statutes is judicial r ulemaking. See all examples of statute These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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