All 3 Uses of
statutory law
in
Measure for Measure
- We have strict statutes and most biting laws,— The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds,— Which for this fourteen years we have let sleep, Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey.†
Scene 1.4 *statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
- He,—to give fear to use and liberty, Which have for long run by the hideous law, As mice by lions,—hath pick'd out an act, Under whose heavy sense your brother's life Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it; And follows close the rigour of the statute To make him an example; all hope is gone.†
Scene 1.5statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
- My business in this state Made me a looker-on here in Vienna, Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o'errun the stew: laws for all faults, But faults so countenanc'd that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, As much in mock as mark.†
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