legal statute
Codified legislative rule
A legal statute is a law enacted by a legislative body—Congress, a state legislature, or parliament.
Statutes are written laws, distinguished from case law made by judges and common law derived from tradition.
The phrase is somewhat redundant, since statutes are by definition legal instruments: The legal statute prohibits discrimination in hiring.
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- rule of lawSupremacy of established laws
- codeSymbolic communication system
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- enactmentPassing into law
state law · federal law · decree · regulation · act · bill · due process · provision · clause · fine print · amendment · codify · Congress · gavel · courtroom · binding · enforce · violation
legal statutecommon law
Jurisprudence from judicial decisions
case law · judicial precedent · unwritten law · natural law · equity
legal statutesocial norm
Shared behavioral expectation
custom · unwritten rule · convention · tradition · gentlemen's agreement
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