The Only Use
statutory law
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- 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.
p. 250.9statute = law
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)