Statute in Europe
Definition of Statute
An Act of Parliament, particularly public Acts. Statutes are of the following kinds : “Declaratory” when they do not profess to make any alteration in the existing law, but merely to declare or explain what it is; “remedial,” when they alter the common law; “amending,” when they alter the statute law; ” consolidating,” when they consolidate several previous statutes relating to the same subjectmatter, with or without alterations of substance; “disabling” or “restraining,” when they restrain the alienation of property, and “enabling,” when they remove a restriction or disability ; and “penal” when they impose a penalty or forfeiture
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Definition of Statute is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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