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statute-book
†1. A book containing an Act of Parliament. Obs.
1593R. Holtby in J. Morris Troubles Cath. Forefathers (1877) 223 Some of the jury required the statute book, that they might proceed the more assuredly.
2. The book containing the statutes of a nation or state; usually (sing., occas. pl.) the whole series of volumes forming the official record of the statutes. Phrase, on the statute-book.
a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1649) 368 In which many Acts pass'd, the most materiall whereof, I have set down briefly, not always according to the order observed in the Statute-Book, but rather according to the matters handled. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. viii. ii. 175 They searched the whole Scripture, read over the Statute-Book, and all the Common Law-Books and Cases, that they could get. 1705Addison Italy, St. Marino 133, I saw in their Statute-Book a Law against such as speak disrespectfully of him. 1765Blackstone Comm. i. Introd. §3. 85 The oldest of these now extant, and printed in our statute books, is the famous magna carta. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 585 If the game-laws were only a dead letter on our statute⁓books. 1825Syd. Smith Sp. Wks. 1859 II. 200/2, I should have said, that the disabling laws against the Catholics were a disgrace to the statute-book. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. xvii. (1876) III. 310 We must not look to the statute⁓book of Scotland for many limitations of monarchy. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. viii. (1876) 223 Our own statute⁓book proves that the attempt has frequently been made to regulate wages by law. 1871C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. 85 In England..the statute-books are filled with ineffectual attempts of the legislature to establish uniformity. 1934G. B. Shaw On Rocks ii. 253 You will have to wait two years and go through the whole job again before you can get your Bill on the statute book as an Act of Parliament. 1972Times 2 Feb. 16/6 His Lordship thought as the Act was already on the statute book the judge was fully entitled to have regard to it.
fig.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. viii, Those same unalterable rules, forming the complete Statute-Book of Nature. |