statuten.¹

Brit.

/ˈstatʃuːt/,

/ˈstatjuːt/, U.S.

/ˈstætʃut/

Forms: Middle English statew, Middle English statewys (plural), Middle English statout, Middle English statues (plural), Middle English statuȝt, Middle English status (plural), Middle English statuyt, Middle English statuz (plural), Middle English–1500s statuit, Middle English–1600s statut, Middle English– statute, 1500s statewes (plural), 1500s statutte, 1500s statuytt; Scottish pre-1700 staitut, pre-1700 statitut, pre-1700 statuides (plural), pre-1700 statuis (plural), pre-1700 status (plural), pre-1700 statut, pre-1700 statutt, pre-1700 1700s– statute; also English regional (chiefly in sense 6) 1800s statis, 1800s stattee, 1800s statters, 1800s stattice, 1800s stattits, 1800s statty, 1800s stattys, 1800s statue, 1800s– statits, 1800s– statties, 1800s– stattis, 1800s– stattus.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French statute; Latin statūtum.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman statute, statuit, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French statut (plural status, statuz; French statut) decree, command, regulation (13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin statūtum ordinance (2nd cent. a.d. in legal context), in post-classical Latin also decision, decree (4th cent.), use as noun of neuter past participle of statuere statute v. Compare also (with prothetic vowel) Anglo-Norman estatute , estatuit , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French estatut , Anglo-Norman and Middle French estatu (also 13th cent.; > estatute n.). Compare Old Occitan estatuitat (1416), Spanish estatuto (13th cent.), Portuguese estatuto (15th cent.), Italian statuto (a1309).Forms in -uit may perhaps ultimately reflect remodelling as though from a Latin verb in -ire ; compare the infinitive forms Middle French statuir , Old Occitan estatuir , Spanish estatuir , Italian statuire , apparently reflecting similar remodelling. With sense 3 compare French statut personnel (1835), statut réel (1835). In sense 6 short for statute sessions n. at Compounds 3.

I. A decree, and related senses.

†a. A decree or command made by a sovereign, ruler, or ruling body. Obsolete.

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society > law > [noun] > statute

statutec1300

statute lawa1500

stat.1592

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stativea1772

society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute

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decretum1602

invention1639

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bull1696

ordonnance1702

subnotation1839

senatus consultum1875

fatwa1989

society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance

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edict1297

statutec1300

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justification?a1475

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golden bull1537

dictate1604

process1604

dictament1615

dictation1651

fiata1750

diktat1941

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 759 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 128 I not ȝwat is þe newe statuit þat þu þencst forth to drawe.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 365 [Aristotle] made statutes to iustefie þe citees of Grees [L. justificationes Græcarum urbium..determinabat].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13613 Þe Iuus..had mad..A statute again iesus crist, If ani wold him leue or loute, þair synagoge suld be put vte.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) iv. xxix. 61 Ordynaunces of pryuate lawes in Reames..ben cleped ‘statutes’, for they sholde be stabelly kepte.

1520 Chron. Eng. iii. f. 20^v They made this statut that 2 consules sholde be chosen, and they sholde governe the cyte and the people.

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxii^v To this article also perteyneth the decrees, counseyles & statutes of the chirche.

1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 203 All pompe and maiestie I do forsweare,..My Actes, Decrees, and Statutes I denie.

c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1681) 30 The Positive Laws of all places are Statutes.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 127 By these no statutes and no rights are known.

b. A rule or regulation made by a guild, corporation, university, or other organization, esp. concerning the conduct of its members. In early use also: a by-law of a borough; a provision in a municipal charter.

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society > law > [noun] > a law > local by-law

by-law1366

statute1509

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 100 (MED) Thise been ye statuz of ye gylde of ye holy prophete Seynt Jon baptist.

1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §31. m. 9 In the statuitz of the honurable ordre of the gartier.

1509 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 277 They bothe offendid the statute of the Cyte [of Wynchester] thervppon made.

1538 H. Latimer Let. 17 May in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 204 Hytt were gode you wolde sum tyme sende for Masters of Collegis in Cambryge and Oxforde with there Statuytts, ande yf the Statuytts be natt god and to the furtherance of god lettres, change them.

1546 in J. Bulloch Pynours (1887) 64 Tha chesit Johne Vodman and Hungre Jok decanis of the said craft to causs this present Statut to be obseruit.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 6 This very day a Syracusian Marchant Is apprehended..And not being able to buy out his life, According to the statute of the towne, Dies ere the wearie sunne set in the West.

1641 R. Verney in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) II. ii. 21 Local statutes to appoint sermons almost every day.

1702 A. Charlett in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 251 At a weekly meeting, which by our statutes is every Monday, consisting of the V.C., Heads of Colleges and Halls, and the two Proctors, I moved [etc.].

1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. iii. i. xxi The statutes of some colleges forbid the speaking of any language but Latin within the walls.

1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xix. 97 The statutes of whose order strict On iron table lay.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 202 Oxford..is still governed by the statutes of Archbishop Laud.

1922 Columbia Alumni News 13 Jan. 12 The old University statute, which provided that the President should have power to permit scientific tests..was ambiguous.

1999 Petroleum Economist (Nexis) 30 Sept. 41 The company's statutes stipulate that any individual shareholder can hold a maximum of 20% in the company.

c. gen. An authoritative rule or direction. Also figurative.rare after 17th cent.

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society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > commandment or precept

i-setnessec900

bibodc1000

lawa1225

commandmentc1250

lorea1300

preceptc1384

statutea1393

preception1620

rubric1891

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue

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icon1587

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simulacrum1599

statuary1599

plastic1686

make1890

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 360 (MED) Such a Statut thanne he sette..That what man that his doghter axeth, Bot if he couthe his question Assoile..He scholde in certein lese his hed.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 18 After the statutz of Astrologiens.

a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 24 Yf thay wold do hym lawe after the statuytes of armes, thay shuld..let hym go qwite.

1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) 252 My hairt and mynd to the sall euer bend And to thy lawis and statutis eik attend.

1605 A. Warren Poore Mans Passions sig. B^v And I shall die vntested in my death, Doubting least mine Executors refuse The statute of my Testament to vse.

1857 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 540/2 When a woman like Charlotte Bronté does try to evoke that mighty spirit of tragedy..she is told that she is..breaking artistic statutes more immutable than those of the Medes and Persians.

1944 G. F. Sensabaugh Tragic Muse of John Ford ii. 93 John Ford..sees life..as a journey ruled by amoral scientific statutes which inexorably sweep man to his doom.

d. That which is considered to be ordained or decreed by God, a god, or fate.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > Mosaic dispensation > decalogue > one of

commandmentc1325

weirda1400

statutec1430

law-word1645

command1667

c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 387 Ȝe knowe wel how seynt volantynys day By myn statute..Ȝe come for to cheese..Ȝoure makis.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xiii. 72 Quhilk, weill I wait, is Na wys include in statutis of the fatis.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxviii. 12 Praysed be thou O Lorde, O teach me thy statutes.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 40 Men argue yet, Whether a man those statutes can fulfill.

1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs i. 10 Enter ye Nations that obey The Statutes of our King.

1839 Church of Eng. Mag. 14 Sept. 167/1 We are to speak of it now in the period in which the statutes of God are left more definitely on record.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. i. xxv. 228 When we lie down and when we rise up we will meditate on Thy statutes.

1916 H. E. Sampson Sci. Mysticism iii. 117 His act was a challenge of the Statute of God.

1994 F. Halliday in A. S. Ahmed & H. Donnan Islam, Globalization, & Postmodernity v. 100 Khamene'i had apparently argued that the Government could only exercise power within the bounds of divine statutes.

a. An enactment, containing one or more legislative provisions, made by the legislature of a country or state and expressed in a formal document; a document or book in which such an enactment is published. Also as a mass noun.In England, Scotland, and Ireland, statute is generally synonymous with Act of Parliament n. (but cf. quot. 1765), though the term also denotes enactments made by the king and his council before the rise of regular parliaments.

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society > law > [noun] > statute

statutec1300

statute lawa1500

stat.1592

scite1656

stativea1772

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 726 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 127 (MED) Þe king swor..þat þe status of clarindone ech bischop holde scholde.

1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 37 The statut ordeigned & made bi parlement.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 329 Euery statut. koude he pleyn by roote.

1437 in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 438/2 Lawes, Custumes and Statutes of his Reaume.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xliii. f. cxii^v Sometyme in dyuers statutes penalles they that be ygnoraunt be excusyd.

1552 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 142 Y^e booke of y^e Kings Statuts.

1556 Irish Act 3 & 4 Philip & Mary c. 14 The moost auncynt statuits of this realme.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xlix. 117 To Dye once is that uncancell'd debt Which Nature claymes, and raiseth by Eschet On all Mankind by an old Statute past Primo Adami.

1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 21 Other duties by any law or statute due to vs.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. Introd. §3. 85 (note) All the acts of one session of parliament taken together make properly but one statute; and therefore when two sessions have been held in one year, we usually mention stat. 1. or 2. Thus the bill of rights is cited, as 1 W. & M. st. 2. c. 2.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 21 In the statute called the Declaration of Right.

1839 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 223 In Edward the Third's time, a statute was promulgated against dancing.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xiii. 80 A remedy is afforded by statute.

1871 C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. 230 Rhode Island has no statute on the subject.

1921 Amer. Food Jrnl. June 17/1 Under a new statute imitation dairy products are required to be branded with the word ‘imitation’.

1975 M. Kaser in H. H. Höhmann et al. New Econ. Syst. E. Europe vi. 177 The ministries..have been reorganized and, in nearly all cases, endowed with new statute.

2004 Washington Post 2 Mar. (Home ed.) a3/3 The statute says that a woman's sexual history is generally not relevant evidence in a rape case and cannot be presented to the jury.

b. spec. With capital initial and distinguishing word or phrase: a particular enactment or document of this type. In later use chiefly historical.Certain early statutes are commonly named after the place at which the parliament was held, as Statute of Acton Burnell, Statute of Lincoln, Statute of Westminster, etc. Others are named after their subject, as Statute of Apprentices.Statute of Entails, Labourers, Limitations, Provisors, etc.: see the final element.bloody, enabling, peeping tom, reception, reformation statute, etc.: see the first element.

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society > law > [noun] > statute

statutec1300

statute lawa1500

stat.1592

scite1656

stativea1772

c1300 [see sense 2a].

a1325 tr. Hengham Parva in MS Rawl. B.520 f. 70^v (MED) Seche þe auctorite in þe furste statut of Westmunstre.

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 31 Whan he seeþ a man at meschef, þan wole he sylle alþer derrest, ȝe, twyes or þries more þan it is worþ, and þat is aȝens þe statute of marchaundes.

1554–5 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 13 §1 Persons, which for any Offence..bee declared not to be replevisable [v.r. replevised] or bayled..by the statute of Westminster.

1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 611/1 Those which ought to be armed according to the Statute of Winchester.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xx. 324 The statute of frauds 29 Car. II.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 511 By the Statute of Merton..the lord is permitted to approve, that is to inclose, the waste lands of his manor.

1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 41 The long and remarkable reign of Edward the First's grandson is the date of the Statute of Treasons, one of the greatest gains to constitutional freedom.

1902 W. T. S. Hewett Terms & Phr. Eng. Hist. 34 Statute of Fines... (4 Henry VII)..intended to put a check on suits for the recovery of lands... Statute of Grace. A Bill of Indemnity for all political offences, passed in 1690 (William and Mary)... Statute of Kilkenny. This statute, passed in 1366 (Edward III), forbade the adoption of the Irish language, name or dress by any man of English blood.

1926 Harvard Law Rev. 39 469 A third accomplishment of the Statute of Uses was the power it gave the owner to impress his will upon the property.

1958 W. T. MacCaffrey Exeter, 1540–1640 ix. 226 The Statute of Apprentices, which then limited apprenticeship to those whose parents could spend 20s. of freehold per annum.

2010 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 11 Nov. a11 Canada was granted its full independence with the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

3. Law. A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing; (also) the legal status of being subject to this. Now chiefly historical. personal statute n. such a statutory law applying to a person wherever he or she resides (cf. personal adj. 7a). real statute n. a statutory law of this type applying to property, and specific to a state or territory (cf. real adj.² 7a).

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society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > law of nations or international law > systems within

real statute1806

personal statute1861

1791 tr. in F. Hargrave Collectanea Juridica I. xi. 326 The testator..cannot..renounce his personal statute to adopt that of the place where he shall accidentally be.

1806 W. D. Evans tr. R. J. Pothier Treat. Law of Obligations I. ii. vi. 249 According to the nature of real statutes, it governs all things situate in the territory where it is in force.

1861 R. Phillimore Comm. Internat. Law IV. 221 The Spanish Law, which the Court says was her personal statute..permitting her to make such a will.

1894 W. E. Hall Treat. Foreign Powers & Jurisdict. Brit. Crown iii. ii. 136 To the extent that he [sc. the protected person] is governed by English Law, he still retains his personal statute.

1907 E. H. Young in Law Q. Rev. 23 155 The true province of the ‘real statute’ and of the ‘personal statute’.

1918 A. Kocourek & J. H. Wigmore Formative Infl. Legal Devel. xxv. 645 The author..created the mixed statute, applicable at once to persons and property.

1999 J. O'Brien & R. Smith Conflict of Laws (ed. 2) i. 12 A real statute applied only within the territory but a personal statute might bind beyond the territory.

II. Specific uses.

†4. A type of cloth having a breadth which is fixed by statute. Cf. statute galloon n., statute lace n. at Compounds 1c. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > other

straits1429

statute1466

narrow cloth1654

1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 328 For xxiij. narow clothes called statutes.

1545 Rates Custome House sig. diij vi. Statutes for a clothe.

1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Gij Rates for clothes... Statewes.

1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 96 Certaine clothes called Statutes, and others called Cardinal-whites.

5. A bond or recognizance by which a creditor has the power of seizing a debtor's lands in case of default; = statute merchant n., statute staple n. historical in later use.In quot. 1609 in figurative context.

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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > given before magistrate of trading town

statute merchant1422

statute of the staple1426

statute1474

statute staple1576

recognisance staple1587

1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §7. m. 34 Londes..held..by any statut or recovere extended.

1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. C3^v He onely did agree that paying him foure Thousand pound at the day I should receiue my statute safely.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxiv. sig. H4^v The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 2 If I be bound to enter into a statute before the Mayor of the Staple at such a day.

1668 J. Denham in J. G. Nichols & J. Bruce Wills from Doctors' Commons (1863) 121 Three judgments or statuts which I have upon the manor of Thorpe.

1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden v. 1 He that marries her shall give the other a statute upon his estate for two thousand pounds.

1714 London Gaz. No. 5260/4 Debts..secur'd by Judgment, Statute, Recognizance, Fond, or Specialty.

1856 F. Hilliard Law of Mortgages I. xv. 368 The plaintiff mortgaged to Ludlow, and entered into a statute and recognizance to perform the covenants of the mortgage and pay the debt.

1992 C. Nicholl Reckoning (1994) 23 The beneficiary of Woodleff's statute, was Thomas Walsingham of Chislehurst.

6. British. = statute fair n. at Compounds 3. Now historical.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market

statute sessions1562

statutea1600

sittinga1642

mop1677

statute fair1704

port1760

statute hall1763

statute hiring1793

hiring1825

feeing market1865

hiring-fair1883

Soul-mass hiring1884

giglet-fair1890

a1600 T. Deloney Thomas of Reading (1612) iii. sig. Biv I heare that at the Statute folkes do come of purpose to hire seruants.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Statutes is also used in our vulgar talk, for the petit Sessions, which are yearly kept for the disposing of Servants in service, by the Statutes of 1, and 5 Eliz. cap. 4.

1668 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 101 14 persons were going over the boate to Normanton statutes.

1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village i. vi You must know there is a statute, a fair for hiring servants, held upon my green to-day.

1770 C. Jenner Placid Man iv. vii What then are we to hire lovers at a statute?

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 33 Statute and feast his village yearly knew.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 135 I hired you at Treddles'on stattits, without a bit o' character.

1897 Sheffield Chron. 16 Dec. 9 Ashbourne Statutes.—The Annual Statutes fair for hiring farm servants was held yesterday.

1981 A. Kussmaul Servants in Husb. Early Mod. Eng. iv. 60 The maximum distances travelled to the Spalding springtime Statutes of 1773 and 1784 were 22.5 km for masters, and 37.5 km for servants.

Phrases

†P1. by (the) statute: (of merchandise) according to the measure, price, or rate prescribed by statute. Also in extended use: by fixed rule; strictly. Obsolete.

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society > authority > control > in control or charge [phrase] > according to fixed rule

by (the) statutea1475

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 377 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 310 Be statut he schalle take þat on þe day.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vii^v An acre of ground by the statut þ^t is to say, xvi. fote and a halfe to the perch or poll.

1630 J. Taylor True Cause Watermens Suit in Wks. ii. 174/2 The Gentlemens bounty is asleepe, and hee will pay him by the Statute.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 4 One who makes sentences by the Statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscat.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 77 To be a Theme for legal Punsters, and Quiblers by the Statute..to discompose the gravity of the Bench.

1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 72 Nor judge by statute a believer's hope.

1817 G. S. Keith Different Methods Establishing Uniformity Weights & Meas. 27 The Ale Gallon, by statute, is 282 inches.

P2.

statutes at large n. (the title of) a published collection of legislative acts; spec. (a) British a publication of statutes with little or no abridgement; (b) U.S. an official publication of the laws passed by Congress, arranged in chronological order.

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1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1056/1 It dothe in y^e booke of Statutes at large apeare.

1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 174 I stead of the Statutes at large,..they should see Amadis de Gaul, and Orlando Furioso.

1745 J. Downes Serm. 7 The Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to their time, those huge, heavy, hard-knotted volumes.

1825 U.S. Catholic Misc. 6 July 4/1 A proposal to raise money for publishing the statutes at large, and furnishing each individual subject with a copy of them, to prevent dissensions.

1901 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 14 Oct. 8/3 A copy of the United States statutes-at-large would have proved a useful friend to the statesmen who drew the platform for the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention.

1962 Times 6 Jan. 6/1 When Bloom's car was searched there was found a copy of the Statutes at large, including the Disorderly Houses Act, 1751.

2002 R. Petersen in G. Reeher & M. Mariani Insider's Guide to Polit. Internships ii.160 If you don't have a citation or don't know the date of a law's passage, the Statutes at Large is of limited value.

P3.

statute of bankrupt n. now historical and rare a legal enactment or process by which a person is declared bankrupt.

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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > other processes, writs, or warrants

trailbaston1304

gavelet1313

withernam1314

praemunire facias1425

Valentine1556

statute of bankrupt1622

safeguard1670

avocatory1689

information quo warranto1690

statute of lunacy1706

jedge and warrant1720

habeas corpora1838

stop-order1875

caution1959

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. xliv. 224 If the partie bee at libertie, against whom the said Statute of Bankerupt is taken out, the said Commissioners may (if they see cause) commit him to prison.

1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 7 June (1886) II. 19 A Statute of Bankrupt was out against him.

1768 Tyburn Chron. I. 134 Mr. Hodgson deposed, that he being sent by the commissioners in a statute of bankrupt, in quest of the prisoner, he took him on the 17th of April at Sandwich.

1825 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 27 Aug. 541 There was a statute of Bankrupt to be taken out against him and his partner.

1901 Eng. Rep. 4 225 All the other statutes of bankrupt, in the clauses which relate to the investigation and proof of the claims of creditors, speak only of ‘debts’.

P4.

statute of lunacy n. now historical and rare a legal enactment or process by which a person is declared insane.

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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > other processes, writs, or warrants

trailbaston1304

gavelet1313

withernam1314

praemunire facias1425

Valentine1556

statute of bankrupt1622

safeguard1670

avocatory1689

information quo warranto1690

statute of lunacy1706

jedge and warrant1720

habeas corpora1838

stop-order1875

caution1959

1706 Observator 19–22 June Master, I would have the Allies take out a Statute of Lunacy against him.

1742 C. Yorke Let. in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. 20 Dean Swift has had a statute of lunacy taken out against him.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash III. vii. 170 Young gentleman, the English Statutes of Lunacy are famous monuments of legislatorial incapacity.

1999 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 11 Mar. 10 Under a Statute of Lunacy granted in 1844, his daughter Harriet and her husband,..took control of the works.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. With the senses ‘fixed by statute’, ‘recognized by statute’, ‘statutory’. Also in extended use, with the sense ‘customary’.

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1594 Zepheria xv. sig. C 4 The modest blush that did my cheekes attire Was to thy virgin feares statute securitie.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §46 Not only convincible and statute madnesse, but also manifest impiety.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 91 These Nations are well ring'd for rooting, and enjoy the Statute beauty of our Swine.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) Pref. sig. a 3 Those who can give good Security, may have Money under the Statute-Interest.

a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 431 The first operation of those acts..was..to take away the right of primogeniture; and..to substitute and establish a new species of statute gavelkind.

1831 W. L. Bowles Life Bp. Ken II. 229 Informator is the statute-name of the head-master [of Winchester].

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 300 At home they have a certain statute hospitality.

1908 Northwestern Reporter 115 977/2 We have then a case whereby the statute payments of benefits shall be made only to widows.

1920 Southeastern Rep. 101 35/2 The statute requirement that all the names be set forth fully in the certificate was not observed.

2009 Hill Shire Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. 64 Law societies have statute responsibilities to detect and prevent theft from law firms.

b. Designating a unit of distance, area, capacity, or weight that is set by statute. Cf. customary adj. 4a.

statute acre n. now historical

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1590 C. Lucar Lucarsolace i. ii. 8 (margin) A statute acar of land doth contain..4840 square yardes.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 154 As to the manure of it, some sow but two bushels on the Statute Acre.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Acre The Welch acre is equal to two statute acres.

1861 Times 16 Oct. More than 6l. per statute acre.

1920 F. Bradbury Flax Culture x. 89 Recently an average rippler completely rippled one statute acre of partially dried flax in forty hours.

2009 D. Fogden et al. in R. Campbell Clevedon i. 173 12 old acres converts to nearly 15 statute acres.

statute measure n. now historical

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1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex i. 8 (margin) The supposed breadth & length of Englande by statute measure.

1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum vi. lii. 263 To reduce Statute measure into customary measure.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4516/4 The Estate..containing 551 Acres, Statute Measure, being 828 Welch Covers.

1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 122 The statute measures of things were startlingly discredited.

2002 M. Bailey Eng. Manor 15 The ‘hide’ notionally comprised 120 acres, but represents a fiscal rather than a statute measure.

statute mile n.

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1647 J. Greaves Disc. Rom. Foot 31 The same differences, or somewhat like, must have crept in with them, which have been observed amongst us, in our measured, and statute miles.

1735 F. Drake Eboracum App. p. v If the distance of these two places be twelve Yorkshire miles, it is at least fifteen statute miles, and by consequence above sixteen Roman miles.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. v. 92 It is about eleven statute miles in length.

1988 Canad. Aviation May 58 (advt.) Power plants..drive the aircraft at today's jet speeds at ranges up to 2,800 statute miles.

2010 J. A. Tyner Princ. Map Design vi. 94 If it is necessary to have this distance in statute miles or kilometers, it can easily be converted.

statute perch n. now historical

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1590 C. Lucar Lucarsolace i. ii. 8 5 meating yards and ½ meating yeard make a statute pearch.

1670 J. Brown Centers & Useful Proportions 4 As the length of a customary Pearch, is to the length of the Statute Perch, so is the content in Statute Acres known.

1810 A. Nesbit Compl. Treat. Pract. Land-surveying vi. iii. 257 In the common field-lands of Wiltshire and its neighbouring counties, there is a customary measure of a different nature, viz. of 120, instead of 160, statute-perches to an acre.

1908 Engineering–Contracting 2 Sept. 143/1 The prices of Irish roads being usually by the statute perch.

2008 T. Slater & N. Goose County Small Towns 83 A very straight back fence line of the Abbott of Westminster's new plots at Stevenage was some 412 feet, or 25 statute perches.

statute pole n. now historical

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1653 W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor ii. v. 46 The Chain which Master Rathborne ordinarily used (as himselfe saith) contained in length two Statute Poles or Perches, each Pole containing in length 16½ feet, which is 198 Inches.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying Four statute-poles or perches.

1900 A. T. Walmisley Field Work & Instruments ii. 3 In very remote times the measure of 5½ yards to the perch, as still used for the statute pole or perch, appears to have been usual.

2001 S. A. Bedini With Compass & Chain x. 222 It was to be two, or at the most three, statute poles or perches (each consisting of 16½ feet, or 198 inches in length), divided into 100 equal parts.

statute ton n.

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1826 Minutes Evid. Act Railway Liverpool to Manch. 137 in Parl. Papers (H.L. 68) CCIX. 166 And we understand this is to be 2s. for a Statute Ton?

1918 Nature 3 Jan. 348/2 The total production of iron ore in Canada was only about 250,000 statute tons.

2008 R. Fouquet Heat, Power & Light 390 Values presented in the text are in tonnes rather than tons (1.016 tonnes = 1 long or statute ton (DTI 2001)).

c. Designating items (esp. of merchandise) having a size or measurement which is regulated or fixed by statute.

statute brick n. now historical

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1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 43 Statute-bricks.

1802 Gentleman's Mag. June 566/2 At least one hundred thousand statute-bricks have been made.

2011 G. R. Sharpe Hist. Eng. Churches i. 26 1729. Size regulated by statute to 8³/ ₄″ x 4¹/ ₈″ x 2¹/ ₂″ (205 mm x 101 mm x 52 mm). These bricks became known as ‘statute bricks’.

† statute fringe n. Obsolete

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1594 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1886) 16 191 For 6 oz. and ½ statute fringe, ijs. ijd.

† statute galloon n. Obsolete

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1789 Instr. cutting out Apparel for Poor 81 Statute Galloon for binding 4s. the piece, containing 36 yards and a half, which is rather more than three farthings per yard.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 460/2 Statute galloon. These are narrow cotton or silk ribbons, employed for the binding of flannels.

† statute lace n. Obsolete

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1578 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 278 j grose of statut lace v^s. viij^d. iiij gernesh tersele xij^d.

1590 Acct-bk. in Antiquary (1896) 32 118 xij yeards stattute lace, xii d.

1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 211 ij grose of statute lace 12s.

1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 15 A Curtaine..and that a gawdy one, imbrodred with Statute-lace.

a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. i. 76 in Five New Playes (1659) And can you handle the Bobbins well, good Woman? Make statute-Lace?

† statute yarn n. Obsolete

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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Spinning cruell or statute yearne.

C2. Objective, as statute-breaker, † statute-drawer, statute-maker, etc.

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1722 W. Willymott in tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ To Rdr. sig. A4^v To the Statute-Breakers, I, in the behalf of good King Henry, enjoyn as a Penance, the reading and considering well one Chapter of the Imitation..every Morning before their Coffee.

1825 Morning Chron. 3 Aug. 2/2 Is it proper that the first law officer in the realm should be a statute-breaker?

a1831 J. Bentham Nomogr. iii, in Wks. (1843) III. 242 The productions of an official statute-drawer.

1866 Dundee Courier & Argus 5 Apr. 3/2 According to all the statute writers of almost any weight or authority, the Kirk-Session has been held to have within its power the administration of all the ecclesiastical affairs in the parish.

1909 Q. Rev. Oct. 386 A statute-breaker is but little oppressed with a sense of moral guilt.

2011 S. Lepsius in L. Armstrong & J. Kirshner Politics of Law in Late Medieval & Renaissance Italy 84 One could only speculate about the intentions of the statute makers.

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statute-barred adj. Law (of a debt or claim) barred or invalidated for exceeding a limitation set by the Statute of Limitations or similar enactment.

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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [adjective] > barred by limitation

statute-barred1865

1865 Law Times 13 May 333/2 A statute-barred debt cannot be set off, nor an equitable debt, nor claims sounding in damages.

1905 Daily Chron. 8 Aug. 2/7 A desire to liquidate debts that were statute-barred.

2002 Times 16 July (Sports section) 34/3 There was a high risk of a successful application by the defendant to strike out the claim for non-compliance and of the cause of action then being statute-barred.

statute cap n. British (historical after early 17th cent.) a type of woollen cap ordered by the Act of 13 Eliz. c. 19 (1571) to be worn on Sundays and holidays by all people not of a high social or official rank.The Act, which was intended to support a declining cap-knitting industry, was repealed in 1597.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen

Scottish cap1553

blue bonnet1568

blue capa1586

Scotch cap1591

statute cap1598

Monmouth1638

Scotch bonnet1641

Highland bonnet1724

Welsh wig1797

scone1820

glengarry1841

beret1850

Balmoral1857

tam-o'-shanter1884

toboggan cap1886

tammy1894

tam1895

toboggan1907

tam1972

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 281 Better wits haue worne plaine statute Caps .

1608 T. Middleton Famelie of Love v. ii. sig. H2 Tis a Law inacted (by the common counsell of Statute Caps) to qualify the rage of the Time.

1995 J. L. Singman Daily Life Elizabethan Eng. vi. 105 It was mandated by law in 1571 that male commoners wear knitted flat caps on Sundays and holidays; for this reason they came to be known as ‘statute caps’.

† statute congregation n. Obsolete rare (in the language of separatists or dissenters) a congregation of the established church.

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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > supporter of > collective

church folka1200

statute congregation1593

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie 32 [The separatists say:] we thinke the statute-congregations in Englande to be no true Christian Churches.

statute duty n. now historical = statute labour n.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work

week-worklOE

servicec1300

corvée1340

task-work1582

statute work1683

statute labour1729

statute duty1753

slave labour1820

forced labour1872

1753 Bill for repairing Road from Hand & Post 14 The Inhabitants of the said several Parishes, Hamlets, or Places, being obliged, or liable by Law, to do Statute Duty.

1835 C. Penfold Pract. Treat. Roads 25 in Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The system of statute-duty naturally induces a larger outlay to take place in horse labour, than would otherwise occur.

1972 W. Albert Turnpike Road Syst. in Eng., 1663–1840 (2006) 166 The Shoreditch-Enfield Trust was authorized to accept £100 a year from the parish of Hackney in lieu of statute duty.

statute execution n. now rare the seizure of a debtor's lands in execution of a statute merchant (statute merchant n.).

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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement

execution1503

statute execution1766

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xxxi. 487 It hath also been held, that under a commission of bankrupt, which is in the nature of a statute-execution, the landlord shall be allowed his arrears of rent..in preference to other creditors.

1836 Morning Post 15 Dec. 4/1 There were but two ways of construing a commission of bankruptcy, either as an assignment for a valuable consideration or as a statute execution.

1910 Columbia Law Rev. 10 227 A commission of bankrupt is considered as a statute execution.

statute fair n. British (now historical) a fair or gathering held annually in certain towns and villages for the purpose of hiring servants or farm labourers.With reference to the statutes by which such the holding of such gatherings was enacted: see quot. 1656 at sense 6.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market

statute sessions1562

statutea1600

sittinga1642

mop1677

statute fair1704

port1760

statute hall1763

statute hiring1793

hiring1825

feeing market1865

hiring-fair1883

Soul-mass hiring1884

giglet-fair1890

1704 Poems on Affairs of State III. 59 Like Maidens at a Statute-Fair, None went away unhir'd.

1826 H. Smith Tor Hill I. 89 The statute-fair had a few days before completely exhausted their little hoards of half-pence and farthings.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. i. 10 Many a rustic went to a statute fair or ‘mop’, and never came home to tell of his hiring.

1998 D. K. Cameron Eng. Fair viii. 126 In the Midlands particularly, the statute fair was a far from decorous occasion.

statute hall n. British (now historical) a hall used during a statute fair for the hiring of servants or farm labourers.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market

statute sessions1562

statutea1600

sittinga1642

mop1677

statute fair1704

port1760

statute hall1763

statute hiring1793

hiring1825

feeing market1865

hiring-fair1883

Soul-mass hiring1884

giglet-fair1890

1763 Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser 9 June The Proprietors of Statute Hall, by Tottenham Court Road, shall for the future open their Hall two Days in every Week..for hiring Servants and Apprentices.

1772 Town & Country Mag. 33 She..resolved..to repair to one of the Statute-halls, in order to obtain a place in quality of servants.

1999 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 39 517 A new set of prints..was released, showing at one point, Moll visiting the Statute Hall.

statute hiring n. British (now historical) = statute fair n.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market

statute sessions1562

statutea1600

sittinga1642

mop1677

statute fair1704

port1760

statute hall1763

statute hiring1793

hiring1825

feeing market1865

hiring-fair1883

Soul-mass hiring1884

giglet-fair1890

1793 J. Ritson Note on As you like It Epil., in I. Reed Johnson & Steevens's Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) VI. 172 The practice is still observed in Warwickshire and the adjoining counties, at statute-hirings, wakes, &c. by people who sell ale at no other time.

1878 J. H. Gray China I. x. 240 For these servants there are what in England are termed statute hirings.

2010 Filey (Nexis) 19 Apr. An annual custom was to hold ‘Statute Hirings’ on the first Tuesday after Martinmas Day.

statute labour n. now historical unpaid work for the maintenance of public services, esp. highways or roads, required by statute to be undertaken by the residents or tenants of a particular district; also attributive, as statute labour road, etc.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work

week-worklOE

servicec1300

corvée1340

task-work1582

statute work1683

statute labour1729

statute duty1753

slave labour1820

forced labour1872

1729 Anno Regni Georgii II Regis 303 If any Person or Persons, keeping a Team or Teams..shall neglect and refuse to do..their due Statute Labour..they..shall respectively forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Shillings per Team.

1752 Bill for Widening, Amending, & Repairing Road from Combebridge 29 That same Way and Road should, at all times..be repaired and repairable by the publick Statute-labour.

1800 Local Act 39 & 40 Geo. III c. xxxii An Act for levying a Conversion Money in lieu of the Statute Labour [on roads].

1845 W. Pagan Road Reform iii. 208 There is an excellent statute labour road diverging at Leslie.

1895 W. Elkington Five Years in Canada vi. 52 Every person owning property is required to put in a certain amount of work every year on Government roads or fireguards; it is called Statute Labour.

1968 E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent iv. xii. 223 The Council of Assiniboia for 1901..abolishes statute labor, that time-honored method of doing road-work.

2008 Orillia (Ont.) Packet & Times (Nexis) 26 June b3 It was quite usual to see farmer acquaintances working on the rural roads, performing their statute labour.

statute labourer n. †(a) a labourer whose wages were fixed by the Statute of Labourers (1351) (obsolete); (b) a person who undertakes statute labour (now historical)

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > who receives wages

statute labourer1509

wages-fellow1652

flint1765

wage-earner1885

wages-man1888

wage-worker1888

wage-winner1902

payroller1910

wage labourer1957

1509 Proclam. Henry VIII Kynges Grace Pardoned (single sheet) (verso) Statute labourers for all vnlawfull games.

a1650 S. D'Ewes Jrnls. Parl. Queen Elizabeth anno 1601 (1682) 680/2 These Statute Labourers learned in short time the use of Plaister of Paris.

1763 Gentleman's Mag. June 288/2 A statute-labourer, will be sure to..do as little in those six days as possible.

1859 Daily News 8 July 3/3 The statute labourers to whom the roads were confided would lose their employment.

1990 M. Reed Landscape of Brit. (2003) viii. 270 Turnpike trustees could appoint salaried surveyors and hire labour in place of the unwilling statute labourers.

statute law n. a law contained in a statute; (also) the system of law set down by a legislature in written statutes, as distinguished from common law; = statutory law n. at statutory adj. and n. Compounds.

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society > law > [noun] > statute

statutec1300

statute lawa1500

stat.1592

scite1656

stativea1772

society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > statute

statute lawa1500

statutory law1678

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 2863 For statute lauche fyrst ordanyt he Þat Crist a God sulde honowrit be.

1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. E^v He would haue me a cuckold by law forsooth, by statute law.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2443 in Wks. (1640) III There is no Statute Law of the Kingdome bidds you bee a Poet, against your will.

a1653 R. Filmer Patriarcha (1680) iii. §11. 115 What is hitherto affirmed of the Dependency and Subjection of the Common Law to the Soveraign Prince, the same may be said as well of all Statute Laws.

1703 W. Nicolson London Diaries 14 Jan. (1985) 171 The Judges..were to expound all Statute-Laws according to the literal and Grammatical sense of its Words.

1769 F. Norton Speech in Sir H. Cavendish Deb. (1841) I. 432 The common law is as much the law as the statute law.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 361 The statute-law is full of authorities in their favour.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ii. 10 The system of jurisprudence..is in a great measure independent of statute-law.

1915 Times 3 Feb. 14/2 A corporate body..defined by English Statute Law as a ‘person’, cannot be other than English.

1995 New Statesman & Society 17 Mar. 26/1 An officer is constrained by statute law in so far as the Police Discipline Regulations make it an offence not to carry out a ‘lawful order’.

† statute money n. Obsolete payment made in lieu of statute labour.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > other local or municipal dues or taxes

shot and lotlOE

burghal-pennyc1177

scot1227

scat1577

turnsilver1578

rogue money1585

town charge1592

marshalsea1657

by-law1691

tensership1701

statute money1792

corporate tax1824

UBR1985

1792 D. Brown in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. xxv. 331 The other roads are kept in repair by statute money.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 363 That the commissioners of supply, as public bodies in separate counties,..should borrow money, upon the credit of the statute money.

statute Protestant n. British (historical and rare after 16th cent.) a person who conforms to the observances and requirements of the Church of England only so far as is required by statute.

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c1580 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1728) III. i. xiii. 149 He is a great Favourer of one Dyke. Who in his Sermon inveighed against Statute-Protestants, Injunction-Men, and such as love to jump with the Law.

a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1595) 594 Statute Protestants, which goe to the Church and heare an homilie, and receiue once a yeare.

1839 H. Soames Elizabethan Relig. Hist. iv. 242 We know of one preacher who inveighed in the pulpit against Statute-Protestants.

2007 B. J. Kaplan Divided by Faith i. 31 From the perspective of reformers, Puritan or Catholic, little separated the church papist from the statute Protestant.

statute roll n. the roll on which the statutes of a nation or state are written; the body of statutes of a nation or state; = statute book n.

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society > law > written law > [noun] > book of laws or statutes > roll

statute roll1570

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 698/1 And so forth accordyng to the petition and mo wordes, are there not in the statute rolle.

1642 King Charles I His Majesties Answer Declar. both Houses conc. Comm. Array 1 July 56 Printed Statutes..and ancient Manuscripts..derived from the Originall Statute Roll.

1762 London Chron. 14 Dec. 579/2 Many acts..were not entered on the Statute Roll.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 253 These petitions..were drawn up after the end of the session in the form of laws, and entered upon the statute-roll.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. iii. xviii. 274 His statute-roll contains no acts for securing or increasing public liberties.

1913 Treasury Decisions under Customs & Other Laws 24 753 The courts must enforce the law as found upon the statute rolls.

1990 Eng. Hist. Rev. 105 8 Measured in terms of entries on the statute roll,..the Parliaments of the last four years of Edward II's reign had negligible impact.

statute sessions n. British †(a) = petty sessions n. at petty adj. and n. Compounds 1b (obsolete); (b) = statute fair n. (now historical).

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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market

statute sessions1562

statutea1600

sittinga1642

mop1677

statute fair1704

port1760

statute hall1763

statute hiring1793

hiring1825

feeing market1865

hiring-fair1883

Soul-mass hiring1884

giglet-fair1890

1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §40 That it shalbe laufull to the Highe Constables of Hundredes in every Shire, to holde kepe and contynue Petie Sessions, otherwise called Statute Sessions.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Qqq2^v/2 Statute sessions..are a meeting in euery hundred..vnto the which the constables doe repaire, and others both housholders and seruants, for the debating of differences between masters and their seruants, the rating of seruants wages, and the bestowing of such people in seruice, as being fit to serue, either refuse to seeke, or cannot get Masters.

1786 R. Heathcote Sylva xlv. 145 I seemed to trace the cause to the Statute Sessions, or (as they are commonly called) the Statutes, held in October or November preceding: whither all the young men and maidens of the villages resort, for other purposes, frequently, besides that of being hired.

1867 Authorized Rep. Proc. Church Congr. York 1866 40 The compulsory assignment of places has long ceased. The statute fair has taken the place of the statute sessions.

1989 B. Hill Women, Work & Sexual Politics (1994) v. 76 In the statute sessions of Spalding,..there are records of 844 male and 722 female servants.

statute work n. now historical = statute labour n.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work

week-worklOE

servicec1300

corvée1340

task-work1582

statute work1683

statute labour1729

statute duty1753

slave labour1820

forced labour1872

1683 R. Dixon Canidia ii. vii. 23 A Justice of Peace engages, For Statute-Work, and Statute-Wages.

1726 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 63 The roads..cannot be sufficiently repair'd by the statute work.

1767 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 573/2 Teams and labourers, coming out for statute work, are generally idle, careless, and under no command.

1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem 43 The old-fashioned Statute-work on the roads..by which every man was bound to give three days' labour, the rich of course sending their substitutes.

1972 W. Albert Turnpike Road Syst. Eng. vi. 166 From the mid-1730s most trusts were empowered to agree with parishes for a lump sum in place of statute work.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	statute
释义	statuten.¹ Brit. /ˈstatʃuːt/, /ˈstatjuːt/, U.S. /ˈstætʃut/ Forms: Middle English statew, Middle English statewys (plural), Middle English statout, Middle English statues (plural), Middle English statuȝt, Middle English status (plural), Middle English statuyt, Middle English statuz (plural), Middle English–1500s statuit, Middle English–1600s statut, Middle English– statute, 1500s statewes (plural), 1500s statutte, 1500s statuytt; Scottish pre-1700 staitut, pre-1700 statitut, pre-1700 statuides (plural), pre-1700 statuis (plural), pre-1700 status (plural), pre-1700 statut, pre-1700 statutt, pre-1700 1700s– statute; also English regional (chiefly in sense 6) 1800s statis, 1800s stattee, 1800s statters, 1800s stattice, 1800s stattits, 1800s statty, 1800s stattys, 1800s statue, 1800s– statits, 1800s– statties, 1800s– stattis, 1800s– stattus. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French statute; Latin statūtum. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman statute, statuit, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French statut (plural status, statuz; French statut) decree, command, regulation (13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin statūtum ordinance (2nd cent. a.d. in legal context), in post-classical Latin also decision, decree (4th cent.), use as noun of neuter past participle of statuere statute v. Compare also (with prothetic vowel) Anglo-Norman estatute , estatuit , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French estatut , Anglo-Norman and Middle French estatu (also 13th cent.; > estatute n.). Compare Old Occitan estatuitat (1416), Spanish estatuto (13th cent.), Portuguese estatuto (15th cent.), Italian statuto (a1309).Forms in -uit may perhaps ultimately reflect remodelling as though from a Latin verb in -ire ; compare the infinitive forms Middle French statuir , Old Occitan estatuir , Spanish estatuir , Italian statuire , apparently reflecting similar remodelling. With sense 3 compare French statut personnel (1835), statut réel (1835). In sense 6 short for statute sessions n. at Compounds 3. I. A decree, and related senses. 1. †a. A decree or command made by a sovereign, ruler, or ruling body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > statute statutec1300 statutec1300 statutec1300 statute lawa1500 stat.1592 scite1656 stativea1772 society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute doomc825 i-setnessec900 setnessc950 edict1297 statutec1300 purveyancea1325 assize1330 ordinancec1330 decreetc1374 constitutionc1380 decree?a1400 sizea1400 stablementc1400 edictionc1470 stablishment1473 ordinationc1499 estatutea1514 placarda1530 prescript1532 golden bull1537 rescript1545 institute1546 institution1551 constitutec1561 sanction1570 decretal1588 ordain1596 decretum1602 invention1639 scite1656 dispositive1677 bull1696 ordonnance1702 subnotation1839 senatus consultum1875 fatwa1989 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment > an ordinance or authoritative utterance setnessc950 sandc1000 edict1297 statutec1300 proclamationa1325 justifyinga1382 rescritec1384 decree?a1400 thewsc1400 justification?a1475 ordinationc1499 dictamena1513 golden bull1537 dictate1604 process1604 dictament1615 dictation1651 fiata1750 diktat1941 c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 759 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 128 I not ȝwat is þe newe statuit þat þu þencst forth to drawe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 365 [Aristotle] made statutes to iustefie þe citees of Grees [L. justificationes Græcarum urbium..determinabat]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13613 Þe Iuus..had mad..A statute again iesus crist, If ani wold him leue or loute, þair synagoge suld be put vte. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) iv. xxix. 61 Ordynaunces of pryuate lawes in Reames..ben cleped ‘statutes’, for they sholde be stabelly kepte. 1520 Chron. Eng. iii. f. 20^v They made this statut that 2 consules sholde be chosen, and they sholde governe the cyte and the people. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxii^v To this article also perteyneth the decrees, counseyles & statutes of the chirche. 1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 203 All pompe and maiestie I do forsweare,..My Actes, Decrees, and Statutes I denie. c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1681) 30 The Positive Laws of all places are Statutes. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 127 By these no statutes and no rights are known. b. A rule or regulation made by a guild, corporation, university, or other organization, esp. concerning the conduct of its members. In early use also: a by-law of a borough; a provision in a municipal charter. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > a law > local by-law by-law1366 statute1509 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 100 (MED) Thise been ye statuz of ye gylde of ye holy prophete Seynt Jon baptist. 1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §31. m. 9 In the statuitz of the honurable ordre of the gartier. 1509 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 277 They bothe offendid the statute of the Cyte [of Wynchester] thervppon made. 1538 H. Latimer Let. 17 May in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 204 Hytt were gode you wolde sum tyme sende for Masters of Collegis in Cambryge and Oxforde with there Statuytts, ande yf the Statuytts be natt god and to the furtherance of god lettres, change them. 1546 in J. Bulloch Pynours (1887) 64 Tha chesit Johne Vodman and Hungre Jok decanis of the said craft to causs this present Statut to be obseruit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 6 This very day a Syracusian Marchant Is apprehended..And not being able to buy out his life, According to the statute of the towne, Dies ere the wearie sunne set in the West. View more context for this quotation 1641 R. Verney in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) II. ii. 21 Local statutes to appoint sermons almost every day. 1702 A. Charlett in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 251 At a weekly meeting, which by our statutes is every Monday, consisting of the V.C., Heads of Colleges and Halls, and the two Proctors, I moved [etc.]. 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. iii. i. xxi The statutes of some colleges forbid the speaking of any language but Latin within the walls. 1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xix. 97 The statutes of whose order strict On iron table lay. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 202 Oxford..is still governed by the statutes of Archbishop Laud. 1922 Columbia Alumni News 13 Jan. 12 The old University statute, which provided that the President should have power to permit scientific tests..was ambiguous. 1999 Petroleum Economist (Nexis) 30 Sept. 41 The company's statutes stipulate that any individual shareholder can hold a maximum of 20% in the company. c. gen. An authoritative rule or direction. Also figurative.rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > commandment or precept i-setnessec900 bibodc1000 lawa1225 commandmentc1250 lorea1300 preceptc1384 statutea1393 preception1620 rubric1891 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue likenessOE imagec1225 figurea1300 signa1382 statuea1393 staturea1393 statutea1393 statutec1430 statuac1450 picture1517 idol1548 portraiture1548 pattern1582 portrait1585 icon1587 monument1594 simulacrum1599 statuary1599 plastic1686 make1890 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 360 (MED) Such a Statut thanne he sette..That what man that his doghter axeth, Bot if he couthe his question Assoile..He scholde in certein lese his hed. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 18 After the statutz of Astrologiens. a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 24 Yf thay wold do hym lawe after the statuytes of armes, thay shuld..let hym go qwite. 1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) 252 My hairt and mynd to the sall euer bend And to thy lawis and statutis eik attend. 1605 A. Warren Poore Mans Passions sig. B^v And I shall die vntested in my death, Doubting least mine Executors refuse The statute of my Testament to vse. 1857 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 540/2 When a woman like Charlotte Bronté does try to evoke that mighty spirit of tragedy..she is told that she is..breaking artistic statutes more immutable than those of the Medes and Persians. 1944 G. F. Sensabaugh Tragic Muse of John Ford ii. 93 John Ford..sees life..as a journey ruled by amoral scientific statutes which inexorably sweep man to his doom. d. That which is considered to be ordained or decreed by God, a god, or fate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > Mosaic dispensation > decalogue > one of commandmentc1325 weirda1400 statutec1430 law-word1645 command1667 c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 387 Ȝe knowe wel how seynt volantynys day By myn statute..Ȝe come for to cheese..Ȝoure makis. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xiii. 72 Quhilk, weill I wait, is Na wys include in statutis of the fatis. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxviii. 12 Praysed be thou O Lorde, O teach me thy statutes. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 40 Men argue yet, Whether a man those statutes can fulfill. 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs i. 10 Enter ye Nations that obey The Statutes of our King. 1839 Church of Eng. Mag. 14 Sept. 167/1 We are to speak of it now in the period in which the statutes of God are left more definitely on record. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. i. xxv. 228 When we lie down and when we rise up we will meditate on Thy statutes. 1916 H. E. Sampson Sci. Mysticism iii. 117 His act was a challenge of the Statute of God. 1994 F. Halliday in A. S. Ahmed & H. Donnan Islam, Globalization, & Postmodernity v. 100 Khamene'i had apparently argued that the Government could only exercise power within the bounds of divine statutes. 2. a. An enactment, containing one or more legislative provisions, made by the legislature of a country or state and expressed in a formal document; a document or book in which such an enactment is published. Also as a mass noun.In England, Scotland, and Ireland, statute is generally synonymous with Act of Parliament n. (but cf. quot. 1765), though the term also denotes enactments made by the king and his council before the rise of regular parliaments. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > statute statutec1300 statutec1300 statutec1300 statute lawa1500 stat.1592 scite1656 stativea1772 c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 726 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 127 (MED) Þe king swor..þat þe status of clarindone ech bischop holde scholde. 1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 37 The statut ordeigned & made bi parlement. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 329 Euery statut. koude he pleyn by roote. 1437 in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 438/2 Lawes, Custumes and Statutes of his Reaume. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xliii. f. cxii^v Sometyme in dyuers statutes penalles they that be ygnoraunt be excusyd. 1552 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 142 Y^e booke of y^e Kings Statuts. 1556 Irish Act 3 & 4 Philip & Mary c. 14 The moost auncynt statuits of this realme. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xlix. 117 To Dye once is that uncancell'd debt Which Nature claymes, and raiseth by Eschet On all Mankind by an old Statute past Primo Adami. 1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 21 Other duties by any law or statute due to vs. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. Introd. §3. 85 (note) All the acts of one session of parliament taken together make properly but one statute; and therefore when two sessions have been held in one year, we usually mention stat. 1. or 2. Thus the bill of rights is cited, as 1 W. & M. st. 2. c. 2. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 21 In the statute called the Declaration of Right. View more context for this quotation 1839 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 223 In Edward the Third's time, a statute was promulgated against dancing. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xiii. 80 A remedy is afforded by statute. 1871 C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. 230 Rhode Island has no statute on the subject. 1921 Amer. Food Jrnl. June 17/1 Under a new statute imitation dairy products are required to be branded with the word ‘imitation’. 1975 M. Kaser in H. H. Höhmann et al. New Econ. Syst. E. Europe vi. 177 The ministries..have been reorganized and, in nearly all cases, endowed with new statute. 2004 Washington Post 2 Mar. (Home ed.) a3/3 The statute says that a woman's sexual history is generally not relevant evidence in a rape case and cannot be presented to the jury. b. spec. With capital initial and distinguishing word or phrase: a particular enactment or document of this type. In later use chiefly historical.Certain early statutes are commonly named after the place at which the parliament was held, as Statute of Acton Burnell, Statute of Lincoln, Statute of Westminster, etc. Others are named after their subject, as Statute of Apprentices.Statute of Entails, Labourers, Limitations, Provisors, etc.: see the final element.bloody, enabling, peeping tom, reception, reformation statute, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > statute statutec1300 statutec1300 statutec1300 statute lawa1500 stat.1592 scite1656 stativea1772 c1300 [see sense 2a]. a1325 tr. Hengham Parva in MS Rawl. B.520 f. 70^v (MED) Seche þe auctorite in þe furste statut of Westmunstre. c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 31 Whan he seeþ a man at meschef, þan wole he sylle alþer derrest, ȝe, twyes or þries more þan it is worþ, and þat is aȝens þe statute of marchaundes. 1554–5 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 13 §1 Persons, which for any Offence..bee declared not to be replevisable [v.r. replevised] or bayled..by the statute of Westminster. 1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 611/1 Those which ought to be armed according to the Statute of Winchester. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xx. 324 The statute of frauds 29 Car. II. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 511 By the Statute of Merton..the lord is permitted to approve, that is to inclose, the waste lands of his manor. 1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 41 The long and remarkable reign of Edward the First's grandson is the date of the Statute of Treasons, one of the greatest gains to constitutional freedom. 1902 W. T. S. Hewett Terms & Phr. Eng. Hist. 34 Statute of Fines... (4 Henry VII)..intended to put a check on suits for the recovery of lands... Statute of Grace. A Bill of Indemnity for all political offences, passed in 1690 (William and Mary)... Statute of Kilkenny. This statute, passed in 1366 (Edward III), forbade the adoption of the Irish language, name or dress by any man of English blood. 1926 Harvard Law Rev. 39 469 A third accomplishment of the Statute of Uses was the power it gave the owner to impress his will upon the property. 1958 W. T. MacCaffrey Exeter, 1540–1640 ix. 226 The Statute of Apprentices, which then limited apprenticeship to those whose parents could spend 20s. of freehold per annum. 2010 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 11 Nov. a11 Canada was granted its full independence with the Statute of Westminster in 1931. 3. Law. A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing; (also) the legal status of being subject to this. Now chiefly historical. personal statute n. such a statutory law applying to a person wherever he or she resides (cf. personal adj. 7a). real statute n. a statutory law of this type applying to property, and specific to a state or territory (cf. real adj.² 7a). ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > law of nations or international law > systems within real statute1806 personal statute1861 1791 tr. in F. Hargrave Collectanea Juridica I. xi. 326 The testator..cannot..renounce his personal statute to adopt that of the place where he shall accidentally be. 1806 W. D. Evans tr. R. J. Pothier Treat. Law of Obligations I. ii. vi. 249 According to the nature of real statutes, it governs all things situate in the territory where it is in force. 1861 R. Phillimore Comm. Internat. Law IV. 221 The Spanish Law, which the Court says was her personal statute..permitting her to make such a will. 1894 W. E. Hall Treat. Foreign Powers & Jurisdict. Brit. Crown iii. ii. 136 To the extent that he [sc. the protected person] is governed by English Law, he still retains his personal statute. 1907 E. H. Young in Law Q. Rev. 23 155 The true province of the ‘real statute’ and of the ‘personal statute’. 1918 A. Kocourek & J. H. Wigmore Formative Infl. Legal Devel. xxv. 645 The author..created the mixed statute, applicable at once to persons and property. 1999 J. O'Brien & R. Smith Conflict of Laws (ed. 2) i. 12 A real statute applied only within the territory but a personal statute might bind beyond the territory. II. Specific uses. †4. A type of cloth having a breadth which is fixed by statute. Cf. statute galloon n., statute lace n. at Compounds 1c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > other straits1429 statute1466 narrow cloth1654 1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 328 For xxiij. narow clothes called statutes. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. diij vi. Statutes for a clothe. 1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Gij Rates for clothes... Statewes. 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 96 Certaine clothes called Statutes, and others called Cardinal-whites. 5. A bond or recognizance by which a creditor has the power of seizing a debtor's lands in case of default; = statute merchant n., statute staple n. historical in later use.In quot. 1609 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > given before magistrate of trading town statute merchant1422 statute of the staple1426 statute1474 statute staple1576 recognisance staple1587 1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §7. m. 34 Londes..held..by any statut or recovere extended. 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. C3^v He onely did agree that paying him foure Thousand pound at the day I should receiue my statute safely. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxiv. sig. H4^v The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take. View more context for this quotation a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 2 If I be bound to enter into a statute before the Mayor of the Staple at such a day. 1668 J. Denham in J. G. Nichols & J. Bruce Wills from Doctors' Commons (1863) 121 Three judgments or statuts which I have upon the manor of Thorpe. 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden v. 1 He that marries her shall give the other a statute upon his estate for two thousand pounds. 1714 London Gaz. No. 5260/4 Debts..secur'd by Judgment, Statute, Recognizance, Fond, or Specialty. 1856 F. Hilliard Law of Mortgages I. xv. 368 The plaintiff mortgaged to Ludlow, and entered into a statute and recognizance to perform the covenants of the mortgage and pay the debt. 1992 C. Nicholl Reckoning (1994) 23 The beneficiary of Woodleff's statute, was Thomas Walsingham of Chislehurst. 6. British. = statute fair n. at Compounds 3. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 a1600 T. Deloney Thomas of Reading (1612) iii. sig. Biv I heare that at the Statute folkes do come of purpose to hire seruants. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Statutes is also used in our vulgar talk, for the petit Sessions, which are yearly kept for the disposing of Servants in service, by the Statutes of 1, and 5 Eliz. cap. 4. 1668 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 101 14 persons were going over the boate to Normanton statutes. 1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village i. vi You must know there is a statute, a fair for hiring servants, held upon my green to-day. 1770 C. Jenner Placid Man iv. vii What then are we to hire lovers at a statute? 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 33 Statute and feast his village yearly knew. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 135 I hired you at Treddles'on stattits, without a bit o' character. 1897 Sheffield Chron. 16 Dec. 9 Ashbourne Statutes.—The Annual Statutes fair for hiring farm servants was held yesterday. 1981 A. Kussmaul Servants in Husb. Early Mod. Eng. iv. 60 The maximum distances travelled to the Spalding springtime Statutes of 1773 and 1784 were 22.5 km for masters, and 37.5 km for servants. Phrases †P1. by (the) statute: (of merchandise) according to the measure, price, or rate prescribed by statute. Also in extended use: by fixed rule; strictly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > in control or charge [phrase] > according to fixed rule by (the) statutea1475 a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 377 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 310 Be statut he schalle take þat on þe day. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vii^v An acre of ground by the statut þ^t is to say, xvi. fote and a halfe to the perch or poll. 1630 J. Taylor True Cause Watermens Suit in Wks. ii. 174/2 The Gentlemens bounty is asleepe, and hee will pay him by the Statute. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 4 One who makes sentences by the Statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscat. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 77 To be a Theme for legal Punsters, and Quiblers by the Statute..to discompose the gravity of the Bench. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 72 Nor judge by statute a believer's hope. 1817 G. S. Keith Different Methods Establishing Uniformity Weights & Meas. 27 The Ale Gallon, by statute, is 282 inches. P2. statutes at large n. (the title of) a published collection of legislative acts; spec. (a) British a publication of statutes with little or no abridgement; (b) U.S. an official publication of the laws passed by Congress, arranged in chronological order. ΚΠ 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1056/1 It dothe in y^e booke of Statutes at large apeare. 1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 174 I stead of the Statutes at large,..they should see Amadis de Gaul, and Orlando Furioso. 1745 J. Downes Serm. 7 The Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to their time, those huge, heavy, hard-knotted volumes. 1825 U.S. Catholic Misc. 6 July 4/1 A proposal to raise money for publishing the statutes at large, and furnishing each individual subject with a copy of them, to prevent dissensions. 1901 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 14 Oct. 8/3 A copy of the United States statutes-at-large would have proved a useful friend to the statesmen who drew the platform for the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention. 1962 Times 6 Jan. 6/1 When Bloom's car was searched there was found a copy of the Statutes at large, including the Disorderly Houses Act, 1751. 2002 R. Petersen in G. Reeher & M. Mariani Insider's Guide to Polit. Internships ii.160 If you don't have a citation or don't know the date of a law's passage, the Statutes at Large is of limited value. P3. statute of bankrupt n. now historical and rare a legal enactment or process by which a person is declared bankrupt. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > other processes, writs, or warrants trailbaston1304 gavelet1313 withernam1314 praemunire facias1425 Valentine1556 statute of bankrupt1622 safeguard1670 avocatory1689 information quo warranto1690 statute of lunacy1706 jedge and warrant1720 habeas corpora1838 stop-order1875 caution1959 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. xliv. 224 If the partie bee at libertie, against whom the said Statute of Bankerupt is taken out, the said Commissioners may (if they see cause) commit him to prison. 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 7 June (1886) II. 19 A Statute of Bankrupt was out against him. 1768 Tyburn Chron. I. 134 Mr. Hodgson deposed, that he being sent by the commissioners in a statute of bankrupt, in quest of the prisoner, he took him on the 17th of April at Sandwich. 1825 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 27 Aug. 541 There was a statute of Bankrupt to be taken out against him and his partner. 1901 Eng. Rep. 4 225 All the other statutes of bankrupt, in the clauses which relate to the investigation and proof of the claims of creditors, speak only of ‘debts’. P4. statute of lunacy n. now historical and rare a legal enactment or process by which a person is declared insane. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > other processes, writs, or warrants trailbaston1304 gavelet1313 withernam1314 praemunire facias1425 Valentine1556 statute of bankrupt1622 safeguard1670 avocatory1689 information quo warranto1690 statute of lunacy1706 jedge and warrant1720 habeas corpora1838 stop-order1875 caution1959 1706 Observator 19–22 June Master, I would have the Allies take out a Statute of Lunacy against him. 1742 C. Yorke Let. in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) II. 20 Dean Swift has had a statute of lunacy taken out against him. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash III. vii. 170 Young gentleman, the English Statutes of Lunacy are famous monuments of legislatorial incapacity. 1999 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 11 Mar. 10 Under a Statute of Lunacy granted in 1844, his daughter Harriet and her husband,..took control of the works. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. With the senses ‘fixed by statute’, ‘recognized by statute’, ‘statutory’. Also in extended use, with the sense ‘customary’. ΚΠ 1594 Zepheria xv. sig. C 4 The modest blush that did my cheekes attire Was to thy virgin feares statute securitie. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §46 Not only convincible and statute madnesse, but also manifest impiety. View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 91 These Nations are well ring'd for rooting, and enjoy the Statute beauty of our Swine. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) Pref. sig. a 3 Those who can give good Security, may have Money under the Statute-Interest. a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 431 The first operation of those acts..was..to take away the right of primogeniture; and..to substitute and establish a new species of statute gavelkind. 1831 W. L. Bowles Life Bp. Ken II. 229 Informator is the statute-name of the head-master [of Winchester]. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 300 At home they have a certain statute hospitality. 1908 Northwestern Reporter 115 977/2 We have then a case whereby the statute payments of benefits shall be made only to widows. 1920 Southeastern Rep. 101 35/2 The statute requirement that all the names be set forth fully in the certificate was not observed. 2009 Hill Shire Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. 64 Law societies have statute responsibilities to detect and prevent theft from law firms. b. Designating a unit of distance, area, capacity, or weight that is set by statute. Cf. customary adj. 4a. statute acre n. now historical ΚΠ 1590 C. Lucar Lucarsolace i. ii. 8 (margin) A statute acar of land doth contain..4840 square yardes. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 154 As to the manure of it, some sow but two bushels on the Statute Acre. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Acre The Welch acre is equal to two statute acres. 1861 Times 16 Oct. More than 6l. per statute acre. 1920 F. Bradbury Flax Culture x. 89 Recently an average rippler completely rippled one statute acre of partially dried flax in forty hours. 2009 D. Fogden et al. in R. Campbell Clevedon i. 173 12 old acres converts to nearly 15 statute acres. statute measure n. now historical ΚΠ 1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex i. 8 (margin) The supposed breadth & length of Englande by statute measure. 1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum vi. lii. 263 To reduce Statute measure into customary measure. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4516/4 The Estate..containing 551 Acres, Statute Measure, being 828 Welch Covers. 1889 J. H. Skrine Mem. E. Thring 122 The statute measures of things were startlingly discredited. 2002 M. Bailey Eng. Manor 15 The ‘hide’ notionally comprised 120 acres, but represents a fiscal rather than a statute measure. statute mile n. ΚΠ 1647 J. Greaves Disc. Rom. Foot 31 The same differences, or somewhat like, must have crept in with them, which have been observed amongst us, in our measured, and statute miles. 1735 F. Drake Eboracum App. p. v If the distance of these two places be twelve Yorkshire miles, it is at least fifteen statute miles, and by consequence above sixteen Roman miles. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. v. 92 It is about eleven statute miles in length. 1988 Canad. Aviation May 58 (advt.) Power plants..drive the aircraft at today's jet speeds at ranges up to 2,800 statute miles. 2010 J. A. Tyner Princ. Map Design vi. 94 If it is necessary to have this distance in statute miles or kilometers, it can easily be converted. statute perch n. now historical ΚΠ 1590 C. Lucar Lucarsolace i. ii. 8 5 meating yards and ½ meating yeard make a statute pearch. 1670 J. Brown Centers & Useful Proportions 4 As the length of a customary Pearch, is to the length of the Statute Perch, so is the content in Statute Acres known. 1810 A. Nesbit Compl. Treat. Pract. Land-surveying vi. iii. 257 In the common field-lands of Wiltshire and its neighbouring counties, there is a customary measure of a different nature, viz. of 120, instead of 160, statute-perches to an acre. 1908 Engineering–Contracting 2 Sept. 143/1 The prices of Irish roads being usually by the statute perch. 2008 T. Slater & N. Goose County Small Towns 83 A very straight back fence line of the Abbott of Westminster's new plots at Stevenage was some 412 feet, or 25 statute perches. statute pole n. now historical ΚΠ 1653 W. Leybourn Compl. Surveyor ii. v. 46 The Chain which Master Rathborne ordinarily used (as himselfe saith) contained in length two Statute Poles or Perches, each Pole containing in length 16½ feet, which is 198 Inches. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying Four statute-poles or perches. 1900 A. T. Walmisley Field Work & Instruments ii. 3 In very remote times the measure of 5½ yards to the perch, as still used for the statute pole or perch, appears to have been usual. 2001 S. A. Bedini With Compass & Chain x. 222 It was to be two, or at the most three, statute poles or perches (each consisting of 16½ feet, or 198 inches in length), divided into 100 equal parts. statute ton n. ΚΠ 1826 Minutes Evid. Act Railway Liverpool to Manch. 137 in Parl. Papers (H.L. 68) CCIX. 166 And we understand this is to be 2s. for a Statute Ton? 1918 Nature 3 Jan. 348/2 The total production of iron ore in Canada was only about 250,000 statute tons. 2008 R. Fouquet Heat, Power & Light 390 Values presented in the text are in tonnes rather than tons (1.016 tonnes = 1 long or statute ton (DTI 2001)). c. Designating items (esp. of merchandise) having a size or measurement which is regulated or fixed by statute. statute brick n. now historical ΚΠ 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 43 Statute-bricks. 1802 Gentleman's Mag. June 566/2 At least one hundred thousand statute-bricks have been made. 2011 G. R. Sharpe Hist. Eng. Churches i. 26 1729. Size regulated by statute to 8³/ ₄″ x 4¹/ ₈″ x 2¹/ ₂″ (205 mm x 101 mm x 52 mm). These bricks became known as ‘statute bricks’. † statute fringe n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1594 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1886) 16 191 For 6 oz. and ½ statute fringe, ijs. ijd. † statute galloon n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1789 Instr. cutting out Apparel for Poor 81 Statute Galloon for binding 4s. the piece, containing 36 yards and a half, which is rather more than three farthings per yard. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 460/2 Statute galloon. These are narrow cotton or silk ribbons, employed for the binding of flannels. † statute lace n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1578 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 278 j grose of statut lace v^s. viij^d. iiij gernesh tersele xij^d. 1590 Acct-bk. in Antiquary (1896) 32 118 xij yeards stattute lace, xii d. 1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 211 ij grose of statute lace 12s. 1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 15 A Curtaine..and that a gawdy one, imbrodred with Statute-lace. a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. i. 76 in Five New Playes (1659) And can you handle the Bobbins well, good Woman? Make statute-Lace? † statute yarn n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Spinning cruell or statute yearne. C2. Objective, as statute-breaker, † statute-drawer, statute-maker, etc. ΚΠ 1722 W. Willymott in tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ To Rdr. sig. A4^v To the Statute-Breakers, I, in the behalf of good King Henry, enjoyn as a Penance, the reading and considering well one Chapter of the Imitation..every Morning before their Coffee. 1825 Morning Chron. 3 Aug. 2/2 Is it proper that the first law officer in the realm should be a statute-breaker? a1831 J. Bentham Nomogr. iii, in Wks. (1843) III. 242 The productions of an official statute-drawer. 1866 Dundee Courier & Argus 5 Apr. 3/2 According to all the statute writers of almost any weight or authority, the Kirk-Session has been held to have within its power the administration of all the ecclesiastical affairs in the parish. 1909 Q. Rev. Oct. 386 A statute-breaker is but little oppressed with a sense of moral guilt. 2011 S. Lepsius in L. Armstrong & J. Kirshner Politics of Law in Late Medieval & Renaissance Italy 84 One could only speculate about the intentions of the statute makers. C3. statute-barred adj. Law (of a debt or claim) barred or invalidated for exceeding a limitation set by the Statute of Limitations or similar enactment. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [adjective] > barred by limitation statute-barred1865 1865 Law Times 13 May 333/2 A statute-barred debt cannot be set off, nor an equitable debt, nor claims sounding in damages. 1905 Daily Chron. 8 Aug. 2/7 A desire to liquidate debts that were statute-barred. 2002 Times 16 July (Sports section) 34/3 There was a high risk of a successful application by the defendant to strike out the claim for non-compliance and of the cause of action then being statute-barred. statute cap n. British (historical after early 17th cent.) a type of woollen cap ordered by the Act of 13 Eliz. c. 19 (1571) to be worn on Sundays and holidays by all people not of a high social or official rank.The Act, which was intended to support a declining cap-knitting industry, was repealed in 1597. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen Scottish cap1553 blue bonnet1568 blue capa1586 Scotch cap1591 statute cap1598 Monmouth1638 Scotch bonnet1641 Highland bonnet1724 Welsh wig1797 scone1820 glengarry1841 beret1850 Balmoral1857 tam-o'-shanter1884 toboggan cap1886 tammy1894 tam1895 toboggan1907 tam1972 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 281 Better wits haue worne plaine statute Caps . View more context for this quotation 1608 T. Middleton Famelie of Love v. ii. sig. H2 Tis a Law inacted (by the common counsell of Statute Caps) to qualify the rage of the Time. 1995 J. L. Singman Daily Life Elizabethan Eng. vi. 105 It was mandated by law in 1571 that male commoners wear knitted flat caps on Sundays and holidays; for this reason they came to be known as ‘statute caps’. † statute congregation n. Obsolete rare (in the language of separatists or dissenters) a congregation of the established church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > supporter of > collective church folka1200 statute congregation1593 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie 32 [The separatists say:] we thinke the statute-congregations in Englande to be no true Christian Churches. statute duty n. now historical = statute labour n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 1753 Bill for repairing Road from Hand & Post 14 The Inhabitants of the said several Parishes, Hamlets, or Places, being obliged, or liable by Law, to do Statute Duty. 1835 C. Penfold Pract. Treat. Roads 25 in Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The system of statute-duty naturally induces a larger outlay to take place in horse labour, than would otherwise occur. 1972 W. Albert Turnpike Road Syst. in Eng., 1663–1840 (2006) 166 The Shoreditch-Enfield Trust was authorized to accept £100 a year from the parish of Hackney in lieu of statute duty. statute execution n. now rare the seizure of a debtor's lands in execution of a statute merchant (statute merchant n.). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement execution1503 statute execution1766 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xxxi. 487 It hath also been held, that under a commission of bankrupt, which is in the nature of a statute-execution, the landlord shall be allowed his arrears of rent..in preference to other creditors. 1836 Morning Post 15 Dec. 4/1 There were but two ways of construing a commission of bankruptcy, either as an assignment for a valuable consideration or as a statute execution. 1910 Columbia Law Rev. 10 227 A commission of bankrupt is considered as a statute execution. statute fair n. British (now historical) a fair or gathering held annually in certain towns and villages for the purpose of hiring servants or farm labourers.With reference to the statutes by which such the holding of such gatherings was enacted: see quot. 1656 at sense 6. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1704 Poems on Affairs of State III. 59 Like Maidens at a Statute-Fair, None went away unhir'd. 1826 H. Smith Tor Hill I. 89 The statute-fair had a few days before completely exhausted their little hoards of half-pence and farthings. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. i. 10 Many a rustic went to a statute fair or ‘mop’, and never came home to tell of his hiring. 1998 D. K. Cameron Eng. Fair viii. 126 In the Midlands particularly, the statute fair was a far from decorous occasion. statute hall n. British (now historical) a hall used during a statute fair for the hiring of servants or farm labourers. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1763 Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser 9 June The Proprietors of Statute Hall, by Tottenham Court Road, shall for the future open their Hall two Days in every Week..for hiring Servants and Apprentices. 1772 Town & Country Mag. 33 She..resolved..to repair to one of the Statute-halls, in order to obtain a place in quality of servants. 1999 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 39 517 A new set of prints..was released, showing at one point, Moll visiting the Statute Hall. statute hiring n. British (now historical) = statute fair n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1793 J. Ritson Note on As you like It Epil., in I. Reed Johnson & Steevens's Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) VI. 172 The practice is still observed in Warwickshire and the adjoining counties, at statute-hirings, wakes, &c. by people who sell ale at no other time. 1878 J. H. Gray China I. x. 240 For these servants there are what in England are termed statute hirings. 2010 Filey (Nexis) 19 Apr. An annual custom was to hold ‘Statute Hirings’ on the first Tuesday after Martinmas Day. statute labour n. now historical unpaid work for the maintenance of public services, esp. highways or roads, required by statute to be undertaken by the residents or tenants of a particular district; also attributive, as statute labour road, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 1729 Anno Regni Georgii II Regis 303 If any Person or Persons, keeping a Team or Teams..shall neglect and refuse to do..their due Statute Labour..they..shall respectively forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Shillings per Team. 1752 Bill for Widening, Amending, & Repairing Road from Combebridge 29 That same Way and Road should, at all times..be repaired and repairable by the publick Statute-labour. 1800 Local Act 39 & 40 Geo. III c. xxxii An Act for levying a Conversion Money in lieu of the Statute Labour [on roads]. 1845 W. Pagan Road Reform iii. 208 There is an excellent statute labour road diverging at Leslie. 1895 W. Elkington Five Years in Canada vi. 52 Every person owning property is required to put in a certain amount of work every year on Government roads or fireguards; it is called Statute Labour. 1968 E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent iv. xii. 223 The Council of Assiniboia for 1901..abolishes statute labor, that time-honored method of doing road-work. 2008 Orillia (Ont.) Packet & Times (Nexis) 26 June b3 It was quite usual to see farmer acquaintances working on the rural roads, performing their statute labour. statute labourer n. †(a) a labourer whose wages were fixed by the Statute of Labourers (1351) (obsolete); (b) a person who undertakes statute labour (now historical) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > who receives wages statute labourer1509 wages-fellow1652 flint1765 wage-earner1885 wages-man1888 wage-worker1888 wage-winner1902 payroller1910 wage labourer1957 1509 Proclam. Henry VIII Kynges Grace Pardoned (single sheet) (verso) Statute labourers for all vnlawfull games. a1650 S. D'Ewes Jrnls. Parl. Queen Elizabeth anno 1601 (1682) 680/2 These Statute Labourers learned in short time the use of Plaister of Paris. 1763 Gentleman's Mag. June 288/2 A statute-labourer, will be sure to..do as little in those six days as possible. 1859 Daily News 8 July 3/3 The statute labourers to whom the roads were confided would lose their employment. 1990 M. Reed Landscape of Brit. (2003) viii. 270 Turnpike trustees could appoint salaried surveyors and hire labour in place of the unwilling statute labourers. statute law n. a law contained in a statute; (also) the system of law set down by a legislature in written statutes, as distinguished from common law; = statutory law n. at statutory adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > statute statutec1300 statutec1300 statutec1300 statute lawa1500 stat.1592 scite1656 stativea1772 society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > statute statute lawa1500 statutory law1678 a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 2863 For statute lauche fyrst ordanyt he Þat Crist a God sulde honowrit be. 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. E^v He would haue me a cuckold by law forsooth, by statute law. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2443 in Wks. (1640) III There is no Statute Law of the Kingdome bidds you bee a Poet, against your will. a1653 R. Filmer Patriarcha (1680) iii. §11. 115 What is hitherto affirmed of the Dependency and Subjection of the Common Law to the Soveraign Prince, the same may be said as well of all Statute Laws. 1703 W. Nicolson London Diaries 14 Jan. (1985) 171 The Judges..were to expound all Statute-Laws according to the literal and Grammatical sense of its Words. 1769 F. Norton Speech in Sir H. Cavendish Deb. (1841) I. 432 The common law is as much the law as the statute law. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 361 The statute-law is full of authorities in their favour. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ii. 10 The system of jurisprudence..is in a great measure independent of statute-law. 1915 Times 3 Feb. 14/2 A corporate body..defined by English Statute Law as a ‘person’, cannot be other than English. 1995 New Statesman & Society 17 Mar. 26/1 An officer is constrained by statute law in so far as the Police Discipline Regulations make it an offence not to carry out a ‘lawful order’. † statute money n. Obsolete payment made in lieu of statute labour. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > other local or municipal dues or taxes shot and lotlOE burghal-pennyc1177 scot1227 scat1577 turnsilver1578 rogue money1585 town charge1592 marshalsea1657 by-law1691 tensership1701 statute money1792 corporate tax1824 UBR1985 1792 D. Brown in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. xxv. 331 The other roads are kept in repair by statute money. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 363 That the commissioners of supply, as public bodies in separate counties,..should borrow money, upon the credit of the statute money. statute Protestant n. British (historical and rare after 16th cent.) a person who conforms to the observances and requirements of the Church of England only so far as is required by statute. ΚΠ c1580 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1728) III. i. xiii. 149 He is a great Favourer of one Dyke. Who in his Sermon inveighed against Statute-Protestants, Injunction-Men, and such as love to jump with the Law. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1595) 594 Statute Protestants, which goe to the Church and heare an homilie, and receiue once a yeare. 1839 H. Soames Elizabethan Relig. Hist. iv. 242 We know of one preacher who inveighed in the pulpit against Statute-Protestants. 2007 B. J. Kaplan Divided by Faith i. 31 From the perspective of reformers, Puritan or Catholic, little separated the church papist from the statute Protestant. statute roll n. the roll on which the statutes of a nation or state are written; the body of statutes of a nation or state; = statute book n. ΘΚΠ society > law > written law > [noun] > book of laws or statutes > roll statute roll1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 698/1 And so forth accordyng to the petition and mo wordes, are there not in the statute rolle. 1642 King Charles I His Majesties Answer Declar. both Houses conc. Comm. Array 1 July 56 Printed Statutes..and ancient Manuscripts..derived from the Originall Statute Roll. 1762 London Chron. 14 Dec. 579/2 Many acts..were not entered on the Statute Roll. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 253 These petitions..were drawn up after the end of the session in the form of laws, and entered upon the statute-roll. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. iii. xviii. 274 His statute-roll contains no acts for securing or increasing public liberties. 1913 Treasury Decisions under Customs & Other Laws 24 753 The courts must enforce the law as found upon the statute rolls. 1990 Eng. Hist. Rev. 105 8 Measured in terms of entries on the statute roll,..the Parliaments of the last four years of Edward II's reign had negligible impact. statute sessions n. British †(a) = petty sessions n. at petty adj. and n. Compounds 1b (obsolete); (b) = statute fair n. (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §40 That it shalbe laufull to the Highe Constables of Hundredes in every Shire, to holde kepe and contynue Petie Sessions, otherwise called Statute Sessions. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Qqq2^v/2 Statute sessions..are a meeting in euery hundred..vnto the which the constables doe repaire, and others both housholders and seruants, for the debating of differences between masters and their seruants, the rating of seruants wages, and the bestowing of such people in seruice, as being fit to serue, either refuse to seeke, or cannot get Masters. 1786 R. Heathcote Sylva xlv. 145 I seemed to trace the cause to the Statute Sessions, or (as they are commonly called) the Statutes, held in October or November preceding: whither all the young men and maidens of the villages resort, for other purposes, frequently, besides that of being hired. 1867 Authorized Rep. Proc. Church Congr. York 1866 40 The compulsory assignment of places has long ceased. The statute fair has taken the place of the statute sessions. 1989 B. Hill Women, Work & Sexual Politics (1994) v. 76 In the statute sessions of Spalding,..there are records of 844 male and 722 female servants. statute work n. now historical = statute labour n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 1683 R. Dixon Canidia ii. vii. 23 A Justice of Peace engages, For Statute-Work, and Statute-Wages. 1726 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 63 The roads..cannot be sufficiently repair'd by the statute work. 1767 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 573/2 Teams and labourers, coming out for statute work, are generally idle, careless, and under no command. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem 43 The old-fashioned Statute-work on the roads..by which every man was bound to give three days' labour, the rich of course sending their substitutes. 1972 W. Albert Turnpike Road Syst. Eng. vi. 166 From the mid-1730s most trusts were empowered to agree with parishes for a lump sum in place of statute work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † statuten.² Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymology: Apparently a variant of statue n. by association with statute n.¹, perhaps arising from awareness of the literal meaning, ‘something set up’, of classical Latin statūtum as neuter past participle of statuere statute v. Compare also variant forms of statute n.¹ without final -t- in the second syllable, which probably aided association of the two words. Obsolete. = statue n. 1a.In quot. 1880 in a representation of regional speech in northern England. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue likenessOE imagec1225 figurea1300 signa1382 statuea1393 staturea1393 statutea1393 statutec1430 statuac1450 picture1517 idol1548 portraiture1548 pattern1582 portrait1585 icon1587 monument1594 simulacrum1599 statuary1599 plastic1686 make1890 c1430 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1872) l. 3349 The proude kyng leet make a statute of gold..To whiche ymage he bothe ȝonge & olde Comaunded to loute. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5641 With ilk a statute þat þar stude stoutely enarmed. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 27 This virgilie made by his crafte an ymage or a statute. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 Or thou wilt commend thy muse to sempiternity, and haue images and statutes erected to her after her vnstringed silent interment. 1615 A. Stafford Heavenly Dogge 89 Suffer not sycophants to perswade thee to the erecting of thy statutes. 1649 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 334 A statute of brasse. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 277 Their Statutes with Garlands adorning. 1880 Ld. Tennyson Ballads & Other Poems 49 An' 'e bowt little statutes all-naäkt an' which was a shaame to be seen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). statutev. Brit. /ˈstatʃuːt/, /ˈstatjuːt/, U.S. /ˈstætʃut/ Forms: Middle English– statute; also Scottish pre-1700 statuet, pre-1700 statut; also Scottish (past tense and past participle) pre-1700 staitout, pre-1700 statitut, pre-1700 statuid, pre-1700 statuit, pre-1700 statut, pre-1700 statute, pre-1700 ystatut. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin statūt-, statuere. Etymology: < classical Latin statūt-, past participial stem of statuere to set up, to establish, to appoint, to decree, to settle, determine, to decide, resolve < status (see state n.). Compare statute n.¹ Now rare. 1. transitive. Originally Scottish. To ordain, decree; to enact in a statute. Frequently with that-clause as object. Also occasionally intransitive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > decree putc1390 statute1397 inact1432 ordinance1440 enact1464 act1483 enactizea1618 edict1652 society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint asetc885 teachc897 deemc900 ashapea1000 i-demeOE setc1000 shiftc1000 stevenOE redeOE willOE lookc1175 showc1175 stablea1300 devise1303 terminea1325 shapec1330 stightlea1375 determinec1384 judgea1387 sign1389 assize1393 statute1397 commanda1400 decree1399 yarka1400 writec1405 decreetc1425 rule1447 stallc1460 constitute1481 assignc1485 institute1485 prescribec1487 constitue1489 destinate1490 to lay down1493 make?a1513 call1523 plant1529 allot1532 stint1533 determ1535 appointa1538 destinec1540 prescrive1552 lot1560 fore-appoint1561 nominate1564 to set down1576 refer1590 sort1592 doom1594 fit1600 dictate1606 determinate1636 inordera1641 state1647 fix1660 direct1816 society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > bind by recognizance [verb (transitive)] > include in scope of bond statute1397 1397 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1397/1 Item in the counsail general of Striuelyn..it is statutit and ordanyt [etc.]. c1400 Burgh Laws (Bute) c. 114 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Statut(e) It is statute that a burges lyand seke in bed [etc.]. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 133 Than statute thai in ilk steide of the west In thar boundis Wallace suld haiff no rest. 1513 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 10 It was enacted, established and statuted. a1550 ( in J. Gairdner Three 15th-cent. Chrons. (1880) 91 It was enactyd, statuted, and decrede by all the hole counsel of the saide cite. 1594 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 67 The presbiterie of Glasgow statutis and ordenis, that [etc.]. 1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 7 The Burgers..began to statute Lawes, and to make a Magistrate. 1661 Sc. Acts Parl. (1814) VII. 235 It is heirby statute that the Commissioners shall be releived of the pryces therof. 1675 G. Mackenzie Observ. upon 28. Act, 23. Parl. James VI 8 The King Statutes, and they but consent. a1713 J. Stewart Dirleton's Doubts (1715) 224 The Act statutes, That all Actions upon Bonds..should be pursued within Forty Years after the Date thereof. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. ii. 48 He..statuted that men should maintain the dignity of the conjugal state. a1813 A. F. Tytler Universal Hist. (1834) V. xvii. 195 Henry VIII..enacted many excellent laws, and particularly those navigation acts, which statuted that no French wines should be imported into the kingdom, unless in British and Irish ships. 1880 W. F. Skene Celtic Scotl. III. 241 In another law the King statutes that if any [etc.]. 2006 H. Kolkman in M. Spierenburg & H. Wels Culture, Organization, & Managem. S. Afr. v. 120 For stock farming it is statuted that farmer committees must be formed and that camps must be established where livestock can graze. †2. transitive. Scottish. To appoint (a term, a time of payment, etc.), esp. by statute. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > ordain, prescribe, or appoint > a time assignc1305 appoint1393 point?1405 statutec1430 c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 362/2 The day statut to the partis..and the folowar be absent at the set day statut he remanis in mercy and tynis his claime. 1557 J. Knox Let. in Wks. (1864) IV. 246 Statut it is to all men anis to die. 1560 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1843) III. ii. 221 In the terme statut to ansuer to the said Williames petitioun Compered Elizabeth. 1563 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1843) III. ii. 315 The superintendent statutis wednesdaye nixt to cum to pronunc in presens of Jhon & decernis his summondis to summond Barbara yarto. †3. transitive. Scottish. To bring (a kingdom or country) under one's rule, or under the rule of law. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > specifically a country, affairs, etc. stablish1470 statute1488 repairc1503 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1594 Scotlande atour fra Ros till Soloway sand He raid it thrys and statut all the land. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 13 A gret consell was sett..Off Inglis lordis to statute this cuntre. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. xiv. l. 8 Numa Pompilius, quhilk sall..Begyn and statut with lawys and haly lays The cheif cite Rome. Derivatives ˈstatuting n. rare the action of decreeing; enactment in a statute. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > making decrees, edicts, or statutes decreement1570 decreeing1591 statuting1843 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. ii. 13 Enforce it by never such statuting, three readings, royal assents;..it will not stand. 1995 Jrnl. Soc. Hist. 29 288 It was only during the reform debate on the statuting of corvée terms in the 1790s,..that the peasants of the Juellund estate were politically and collectively activated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1300n.²c1430v.1397
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