Sample sentences for STATUTORY LAW

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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

We think of statutory law as being written by legislators, but most of it is written in the form of rules and regulations created by governmental agencies.

He said he didn't have any quarrel with the rape statute, none what ever, but he did have deep misgivings when the state asked for and the jury gave a death penalty on purely circumstantial evidence.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

statute = law

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
August Wilson -- The Piano Lesson
All laws were repealed which extended the crime of treason beyond the statute of the twenty-fifth of Edward III.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
There were French statutes that would make conviction punishable by imprisonment or, at the very least, public expulsion from the country.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
This rule was prescribed for the first time in the State of New York by a statute of February 23, 1786.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
I take the blatant disregard of such a statute quite seriously, Emperor Kaito.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
Jody's been accused of statutory rape.
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
Yet no statutory crime of any kind there.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
You could have pulled him in for fixing the army courts in a couple of killings-there are no statutes, civilian or military, on those crimes.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
What say our statutes, and how do our brethren observe them?
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
His self-absorption and obsession lead him to cruelty, statutory rape, murder, and the destruction of several lives.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
But on paper, by the statutes of New York, he was a doctor when we played, Lou.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
A smother-charge, it was called, and its possession came under concealed weapons and possession-of-burglary-tools statutes in most places.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
"Repeal this statute, my good sir?" says Mr. Kenge to a smarting client.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Go shopping, unless all the shops had gotten their statutory ramps in place.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
"The Army doesn't have the statutory responsibility to take care of this situation," General Russell pointed out, "but the Army has the capability.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
The statutes pertaining to banking confidentiality are among the most sacrosanct in Switzerland.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
It had its unwritten laws, and they were as clearly defined and as strict as any that could be found among the printed statutes of the land.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
Felony is a term of loose signification, even in the common law of England; and of various import in the statute law of that kingdom.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

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