statute law

English

Noun

statute law (plural statute laws)

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

Synonyms

(the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction): statutory law

Translations

a law enacted by a legislative body

Chinese:
Mandarin: 成文法 (zh) (chéngwénfǎ)
Finnish: säädös (fi)
French: droit législatif m
German: Gesetzesrecht n
Japanese: 成文法 (ja) (せいぶんほう, seibunhō)
Russian: стату́тное пра́во n (statútnoje právo)

complete corpus of legislatively-enacted laws

Finnish: säädösoikeus

See also

common law

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