1 a law that is passed by a parliament, council, etc. and formally written down:
Penalties are laid down in the statute. * Corporal punishment was banned by statute in 1987. * The wording of the statute is ambiguous.
2 a formal rule of an organization or institution:
Under the statutes of the university they had no power to dismiss him.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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