statutory
/ˈstatʃʊt(ə)ri
/ /ˈstatjʊt(ə)ri /adjective
1Required, permitted, or enacted by statute: statutory controls over prices...
- This can be seen if one looks at cases in which a public authority has been under a statutory or common law duty to provide a service or other benefit for the public or a section of the public.
- He has concluded that there is no statutory prohibition against extradition.
- The claimant has also no right to a conditional discharge while the recognised statutory requirements for detention are satisfied.
1.1Having come to be required or expected through being done or made regularly: the statutory Christmas phone call to his mother
Derivatives
statutorily
[sentence adverb]: a statutorily protected tenant...
- A patent protects certain statutorily defined classes of new, useful, and non-obvious inventions for approximately 20 years.
- In substance, a statutorily protected foreman self-selected by the jury is not a trial by jury of equals, is not a trial by jury of persons randomly selected.
- Warrantless searches in those situations are statutorily protected under s.