statute laws
Written legal codes
Statute laws are laws enacted by a legislative body, as distinct from common law developed through court decisions or customary practice.
The term emphasizes that these laws exist as written statutes—formal, codified rules passed by parliament, congress, or similar governing bodies.
Statute laws require explicit repeal or amendment to change, unlike precedent-based law.
- legal codeSystematic collection of laws
- bookBound written work
- codeSymbolic communication system
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- legislative actLaw passed by congress
precedents · ordinance · amendments · mandate · constitutional amendments · public law · provisions · letter of the law · legal provisions · court rules · criminal codes · law books · bills · enactment · rulings · act · clauses · regulatory codes
statute lawscommon law
Jurisprudence from judicial decisions
case law · judicial precedent · unwritten law · court decisions · equity
statute lawsunwritten law
Informal accepted rule
common law · oral tradition · convention · constitutional conventions
statute lawssocial norms
Shared behavioral expectations
customs · mores · traditions · etiquette · moral codes
statute, statutes, statutory, statutorily, laws, lawful, lawfully, unlawful, unlawfully