Concept
Statute
Overview
formal written document that creates law, including acts, executive orders, and by-laws
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For though the words of the statute are very general, and seem plainly to include the whole kingdom, by interpretation its operation has been limited to market towns; it having been held that, in country villages, a person may exercise several different trades, though he has not served a seven years apprenticeship to each, they being necessary for the conveniency of the inhabitants, and the number of people…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Names Statute several times; states what Statute is.
By a strict interpretation of the words, too, the operation of this statute has been limited to those trades which were established in England before the 5th of Elizabeth, and has never been extended to such as have been introduced since that time. This limitation has given occasion to several distinctions, which, considered as rules of police, appear as foolish as can well be imagined. It has been adjudged, for…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Statute is; names Statute several times.
And these principles are common both to natural and statute law. But there are also other divisions of law; for there is both the written and the unwritten law,--each of which is maintained by the rights of nations and the customs of our ancestors. Again, written law is divided into public law and private law. Public law is laws, resolutions of the senate, treaties; private law is accounts, covenants, agreements…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
States what Statute is; names Statute twice.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.