statute law

English

Noun

statute law (plural statute laws)

1. (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.
2. (law, uncountable) The complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.

Synonyms

• (the complete corpus of laws enacted by legislation and current in effect within a jurisdiction): statutory law

Translations

a law enacted by a legislative body

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成文法 (zh) (chéngwénfǎ)

• Finnish: säädös (fi)
• French: droit législatif m
• German: Gesetzesrecht n
• Japanese: 成文法 (ja) (せいぶんほう, seibunhō)
• Russian: стату́тное пра́во n (statútnoje právo)

complete corpus of legislatively-enacted laws

• Finnish: säädösoikeus

See also

• common law