state statutes
Provincial legal codes
State statutes are laws enacted by a state legislature, as distinct from federal laws, local ordinances, or court-made common law.
Each U.S. state maintains its own body of statutes covering everything from criminal codes to business regulations: The state statute requires employers to provide workers' compensation insurance.
Plural of state statute.
- judicial reviewCourts invalidating unconstitutional acts
- criminal lawStatutes defining punishable offenses
- three strikesConsecutive misses retiring batter
- drunk drivingOperating vehicle while intoxicated
- penal codesStatutes defining crimes, punishments
legislative intent · codification · committee review · ordinances · traffic laws · speed limit · law enforcement · public safety · gun control · administrative rules · enactments · regulatory agencies · family law · age of consent · code · title · section · violations
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, federal statute
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- legislaturebill, senators, senator, legislators, representative
- legal codescode, codes, statute, law code, codified laws
- legal resourceslaw library, legal forms, court forms, law reviews, legal clinic
- legislationbills, acts, laws, bill, act
state statutesfederal law
Statute from central government
federal statutes · federal regulations · federal legislation · national law · congressional acts
state statutescommon law
Jurisprudence from judicial decisions
case law · judicial precedent · court decisions · executive orders · constitutional law
state statutesunwritten law
Informal accepted rule
social norms · informal rules · tradition · convention · common practice