Both Uses of
statutory law
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- We are brought on to a day in February, on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair in the county-town of Casterbridge.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- CHAPTER L THE SHEEP FAIR—TROY TOUCHES HIS WIFE'S HAND Greenhill was the Nijni Novgorod of South Wessex; and the busiest, merriest, noisiest day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep fair.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(statutory law) law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent) -- this is also one of the senses of the term, civil law