All 3 Uses of
statutory law
in
The Comedy of Errors
- Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more; I am not partial to infringe our laws: The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,—Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives, Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,—Excludes all pity from our threat'ning looks.†
Scene 1.1statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
- This very day a Syracusian merchant Is apprehended for arrival here; And, not being able to buy out his life, According to the statute of the town, Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.†
Scene 1.2 *statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
- To see a reverend Syracusian merchant, Who put unluckily into this bay Against the laws and statutes of this town, Beheaded publicly for his offence.†
Scene 5.1statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
Definition:
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