statute law
Codified legislative rules
Statute law is law enacted by a legislative body, as distinct from common law developed through court decisions or customary practices.
The term emphasizes written, codified rules passed by parliaments or congresses: Statute law governs most criminal offenses.
Also called statutory law.
Deed or performance
- billAmount owed, written
- enactmentPassing into law
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
- amendmentChange to official text
ratification · congressional act · ordinance · regulation · decree · mandate · provision · clause
Made into systematic rules
- legal codeSystematic collection of laws
- civil codeCodified private law system
- penal codeLaws governing offenses
- criminal codeLaws defining offenses and penalties
act
Deed or performance
- billAmount owed, written
- enactmentPassing into law
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
amendment · ratification · congressional act · ordinance · regulation · decree · mandate · provision · clause · section
codified
Made into systematic rules
- legal codeSystematic collection of laws
- civil codeCodified private law system
- penal codeLaws governing offenses
criminal code · tax code · legal framework · jurisprudence · precedent
parliament
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- assemblyConstructing from components
lawmaker · drafting · reading · passage · committee · bicameral · unicameral · session · quorum · vote
- legal systemsjudiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code, laws
- British lawbarrister, solicitor, Crown Court, magistrates court, barristers
- legal codescode, codes, codified laws, legal code, codification
- legal historylegal history, Roman jurisprudence, codification, legal codes, criminal codes
- legislationbills, acts, laws, bill, act
- civil lawproperty disputes, Napoleonic Code, litigation, damage claims, codification
statute lawcase law
Judge-made legal doctrine
common law · unwritten law · judicial precedent · natural law · precedent
statute lawunwritten law
Informal accepted rule
common law · oral tradition · convention · constitutional convention
law, statute, legislator, legislative, statutory, statutes, statutorily, statute book