statute book
Laws in print
A statute book is an official record of a jurisdiction's enacted laws.
Typically used in the phrase on the statute book, meaning formally enacted as law: The measure has been on the statute book for decades but rarely enforced.
In American usage, statute books often refers to compiled legal codes generally.
Deed or performance
- billAmount owed, written
- enactmentPassing into law
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
regulation · decree · edict · charter · bylaw · measure · provision · clause
Organizing rules into system
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- compilationGathered works assembled together
- collectionGathered set of items
register · code · compendium · volume · tome · annotated · revised · updated
National legislative assembly
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- sovereignSupreme in power
crown · government · jurisdiction · royal assent · promulgation · passage · ratification · repeal
Mention of a source
- indexAlphabetical guide to contents
- table of contentsList of chapters and pages
- cross-referenceNotation pointing elsewhere
- annotationAdded explanatory comment
commentary · footnote · legal research · LexisNexis · legal database
act
Deed or performance
ordinance · regulation · decree · edict · charter · bylaw · measure · provision · clause · enabling act
codification
Organizing rules into system
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- compilationGathered works assembled together
collection · register · code · compendium · volume · tome · annotated · revised · updated · edition
parliament
National legislative assembly
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
sovereign · crown · government · jurisdiction · royal assent · promulgation · passage · ratification · repeal · enforcement
citation
Mention of a source
- indexAlphabetical guide to contents
- table of contentsList of chapters and pages
- cross-referenceNotation pointing elsewhere
annotation · commentary · footnote · legal research · LexisNexis · legal database
- Legal/Police Itemsgavel, legal pad, scales of justice, handcuffs, badge
- legal codescode, codes, law code, codified laws, legal code
- legal bookslaw dictionary, casebook, hornbook, treatise, nutshell
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
- political referencespolitical biography, voter guide, voting guide, party platform, election results
- legal writingslegal brief, legal opinion, court opinion, judicial opinion, law review
statute bookcase law
Judge-made legal doctrine
common law · judicial precedent · court decisions · court rulings
statute bookunwritten law
Informal accepted rule
natural law · moral code · oral tradition · convention · social norms
book, books, booking, booklet, statute, statutory, statutes, statute law