statutory
Required by legislation
Statutory means established, required, or permitted by statute—that is, by written law.
A statutory requirement is one mandated by legislation rather than by contract or custom.
Statutory rape refers to sexual activity with someone below the legal age of consent, regardless of apparent willingness.
Statutory often appears in legal and regulatory contexts: statutory penalties, statutory rights, statutory holidays.
Official enactment of statutes
- enactmentPassing into law
- actDeed or performance
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
- clauseProvision in agreement
section · article · amendment · bill · ordinance · charter · decree · bylaw
Required, not optional
- obligatoryRequired by rule
- requiredNeeded by rule
- bindingLegally or morally required
- prescribedOfficially recommended or mandated
requisite · enforced · imperative · nonnegotiable · necessary · dictated · commanded · peremptory
Permitted by statute
- legalPermitted by statute
- legitimateConforming to accepted standards
- licitSanctioned by law
- authorizedGiven official permission
sanctioned · constitutional · valid · official · recognized · permissible · allowable · binding
Adhering to requirements
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- standardsAccepted levels of quality
- guidelinesSuggested rules for behavior
enforcement · governance · inspections · audits · agencies · authorities · protocols · procedures
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
clause · section · article · amendment · bill · ordinance · charter · decree · bylaw · codification
compulsory
Required, not optional
- obligatoryRequired by rule
- requiredNeeded by rule
- bindingLegally or morally required
prescribed · requisite · enforced · imperative · nonnegotiable · necessary · dictated · commanded · peremptory · unavoidable
lawful
Permitted by statute
- legalPermitted by statute
- legitimateConforming to accepted standards
- licitSanctioned by law
authorized · sanctioned · constitutional · valid · official · recognized · permissible · allowable · binding · enforceable
compliance
Adhering to requirements
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- regulationsEnforced rules and standards
- standardsAccepted levels of quality
guidelines · enforcement · governance · inspections · audits · agencies · authorities · protocols · procedures · accountability
- mandatory thingsmandatory, required, obligatory, compulsory, necessary
- government termslegislative, federal agencies, congressional, state agencies, parliamentary
- legality termslegal, illegal, lawful, unlawful, legitimate
- legitimacylegal, validity, legitimate, lawfulness, lawful
- policy adjectivesfiscal, domestic, foreign, federal, national
- damagescompensatory, punitive, punitive damages, nominal, actual
statutorycommon-law
Legal status through custom
judge-made · case law · judicial · customary · equitable
statutoryunwritten
Not set down formally
customary · informal · uncodified · traditional · conventional
statutoryunlawful
Forbidden by statute
illegal · extralegal · unofficial · contraband · illicit
- statutory holidayLaw-mandated day off
- statutory rapeSex crime defined by age
- statutory limitsLaw-imposed boundaries
- statutory rightsProtections codified in legislation
- statutory lawLegislature-made legal rules
- statutory requirementsObligations codified in legislation