statute

C251 concept

A statute is a formal written law enacted by a legislative body that establishes rules, obligations, or prohibitions within a governing jurisdiction.

Aliases (50)

legal code ×35
Act of Parliament ×15
organic act ×15
Japanese statute ×12
public law ×12
British statute ×11
United Kingdom statute ×11
immigration law ×11
civil code ×10
municipal code ×10
Act of Parliament of Great Britain ×7
English statute ×7
Nazi law ×7
New Zealand statute ×7
primary legislation ×7
securities law ×7
housing legislation ×5
legislative act ×5
statutory provision ×5
German federal law ×4
body of law ×4
criminal law statute ×4
legal text ×4
statutory law ×4
surveillance law ×4
German statute ×3
Indian statute ×3
codified law ×3
emergency powers law ×3
health care reform law ×3
repressive legislation ×3
series of laws ×3
source of law ×3
state statute ×3
type of legislation ×3
British legislation ×2
South African legislation ×2
South African statute ×2
Superfund law ×2
Title of the Social Security Act ×2
abortion law ×2
administrative law statute ×2
antisemitic legislation ×2
fair housing law ×2
legal provision ×2
legislation ×2
military justice reform statute ×2
official legal publication ×2
parliamentary act ×2
rules of criminal procedure ×2

Instances (365)

Housing Act of 1949 ("housing legislation")
Department of Energy Organization Act ("organic act")
’33 Act ("securities law")
Habeas Corpus Act 1679 ("habeas corpus statute")
Title IX of the Social Security Act ("Title of the Social Security Act")
Title 46 of the United States Code ("United States Code title")
Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("surveillance law")
Immigration and Nationality Act ("immigration law")
Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 ("housing legislation")
L.A.M.C. ("municipal code")
New York City Administrative Code ("municipal code")
Constitution Act 1902 (New South Wales) ("Act of Parliament")
English Bill of Rights ("Act of Parliament")
Rowlatt Act ("repressive legislation")
USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006 ("amendatory statute")
Slavery Abolition Act 1838 ("British legislation")
Portland City Code ("municipal code")
Acts of the Legislature of Bermuda ("statutory law")
National Cancer Institute Act of 1937 ("public law")
Mississippi Gestational Age Act ("abortion law")
Indiana Code ("state legal code")
Commutation Act 1784 ("Act of Parliament of Great Britain")
Title 26 of the United States Code ("tax law code")
India Act 1784 ("British statute")
U.S. Securities Act of 1933 ("securities law")
Revestment Act 1765 ("Act of Parliament of Great Britain")
Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly ("primary legislation")
Acts of the Scottish Parliament ("type of legislation")
Act on Titles, Orders and Decorations of 1951 ("German federal law")
Covenant Code ("legal text")
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (nuclear-related regulations) ("legal code")
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 ("organic act")
Code Louis (legal ordinances associated with his reign) ("legal code")
Residence Act
Organic Act of Guam ("organic act")
Internal Revenue Code ("tax code")
Federal Alcohol Administration Act ("alcohol regulation law")
Guam Elective Governor Act ("organic act")
Department of Veterans Affairs Act ("enabling act")
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ("statutory provision")
Los Angeles Municipal Code ("municipal code")
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ("British statute")
National Park Service Organic Act ("organic act")
BW ("civil code")
Act No. 127 of 1999 ("Japanese statute")
Imperial Household Law ("Japanese statute")
Court Act of Japan ("Japanese statute")
Administrative Case Litigation Act ("Japanese statute")
School Education Law of Japan ("Japanese statute")
Code of Civil Procedure of Japan
Code of Criminal Procedure of Japan ("Japanese statute")
’34 Act ("securities law")
Public Law 73-291 ("securities law")
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ("housing legislation")
FISA Amendments Act of 2008 ("surveillance law")
Peace Preservation Law of 1925 ("repressive legislation")
Public Prosecutors Office Act of Japan ("Japanese statute")
Clause 39 ("legal provision")
State Emblem of India (Prohibition of Improper Use) Act, 2005 ("Indian statute")
Peonage Act of 1867 ("anti-slavery law")
Puerto Rico Rules of Civil Procedure ("legal code")
Attorney Act of Japan ("Japanese statute")
Quartering Act ("Act of Parliament")
Department of Education Organization Act ("organic act")
California Public Resources Code ("legal code")
Militia Acts of the United States ("series of federal statutes")
Massachusetts Body of Liberties ("legal code")
Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act ("immigration law")
Puerto Rico Rules of Evidence ("legal code")
Puerto Rico Penal Code ("penal code")
Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act ("organic act")
NEA ("emergency powers law")
French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State of 1905
Statute of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ("organizational statute")
Body of Civil Law ("legal code")
Digest ("legal text")
German Civil Code ("civil code")
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 ("housing legislation")
California Government Code ("state legal code")
Acts of Union 1800 ("Act of Parliament")
Administration of Justice Act ("Act of Parliament of Great Britain")
Australia Act 1986 ("Act of Parliament")
Code of Massachusetts Regulations ("legal code")
City of Toronto Act, 2006 ("provincial statute")
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act ("hate crime law")
Florida Senate Bill 4-C (2022) ("legislative act")
District of Columbia Municipal Regulations ("legal code")
District of Columbia Register ("official legal publication")
Public Law 99-499 ("public law")
Quebec Act ("Act of Parliament of Great Britain")
Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure ("rules of criminal procedure")
Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act ("state statute")
Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 ("United Kingdom statute")
Acts of Parliament ("source of law")
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Group Areas Act ("South African statute")
Population Registration Act ("South African statute")
Bantu Education Act ("South African legislation")
Black Lung Benefits Act ("workers' compensation statute")
Chicago municipal code ("municipal code")
Military Justice Act of 1968 ("military law reform statute")
Military Justice Act of 1983 ("military justice reform statute")
Oregon Revised Statutes ("codified law")
Military Justice Act of 2016 ("military justice reform statute")
Lever Act ("wartime emergency legislation")
Petition of Right 1628 ("statute of the Parliament of England")
Crown Estate Act 1961 ("United Kingdom statute")
Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 ("United Kingdom statute")
Iron and Steel Act 1949 ("United Kingdom statute")
Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 ("defense reorganization statute")
Title VIII ("fair housing law")
U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("securities law")
Jones–Shafroth Act of 1917 ("organic act")
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 ("immigration law")
Immigration Act of 1917 ("immigration law")
California Penal Code ("legal code")
Northwest Ordinance ("organic act")
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ("Nazi law")
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring ("Nazi law")
Immigration Act of 1924 ("immigration law")
Act on National Holidays and related cabinet orders ("Japanese statute")
Domestic Relations Case Procedure Act ("Japanese statute")
United States Housing Acts ("series of federal statutes")
Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act
Burgerlijk Wetboek (partly, in the Netherlands) ("civil code")
Law Regarding the National Flag and National Anthem ("Japanese statute")
Wagner–Steagall Act ("housing legislation")
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("surveillance law")
Louisiana Civil Code ("civil code")
Quebec Civil Code ("civil code")
Italian Civil Code ("civil code")
Belgian Civil Code ("civil code")
Juvenile Act of Japan ("Japanese statute")
Spanish Civil Code ("civil code")
Portuguese Local Government Law ("public law")
Title 35 of the United States Code ("patent law statute")
Sugar Act 1764 ("Act of Parliament of Great Britain")
French Code of the Légion d'honneur and Military Medal ("legal code")
Jim Crow laws ("racial segregation laws")
Crown of Ireland Act 1542 ("Act of Parliament")
Merchant Shipping Act ("shipping law")
District of Columbia Home Rule Act ("organic act")
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure ("legal code")
Corpus Juris Civilis ("legal code")
Public Law 107-306 ("public law")
Training Prevention Act 1819 ("British statute")
Seizure of Arms Act 1819 ("British statute")
Seditious Meetings Act 1819 ("repressive legislation")
Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act 1819 ("British statute")
New York State statutes ("statutory law")
Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich ("German federal law")
Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act 1819 ("British statute")
Public Law 93-198 ("public law")
Inspector General Act of 1978
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches ("legal code")
Intolerable Acts ("series of laws")
Massachusetts General Laws ("statutory law")
Misdemeanours Act 1819 ("British statute")
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act ("Medicare statute")
Department of Transportation Act ("organic act")
Supreme Court Act 2003 ("New Zealand statute")
Code of Federal Regulations ("legal code")
Senior Courts Act 2016 ("New Zealand statute")
Title XIX of the Social Security Act ("Title of the Social Security Act")
United States federal law ("body of law")
Act against Dissolution without Consent of Parliament ("Act of Parliament")
Puerto Rico Rules of Criminal Procedure ("rules of criminal procedure")
Resource Management Act 1991 ("New Zealand statute")
Constitution Act 1986 (New Zealand) ("New Zealand statute")
Central Bank of Malaysia Act ("Malaysian federal statute")
Supplementary Provisions ("legal text")
National Emergencies Act ("emergency powers law")
Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 ("New Zealand statute")
Siete Partidas ("legal code")
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 ("New Zealand statute")
Illinois Compiled Statutes ("legal code")
1917 Code of Canon Law ("legal code")
adoption of Declaration of State Sovereignty of the RSFSR ("parliamentary act")
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ("right-to-know law")
Toleration Act 1689 ("English statute")
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("immigration law")
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1878 ("organic act")
Charter Act 1813 ("British statute")
Italian Racial Laws ("antisemitic legislation")
Golden Bull of 1356 ("legal code")
Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defense ("Nazi law")
Statute of Quia Emptores ("English statute")
Florida statutes ("primary source of law")
Statute of Mortmain ("English statute")
Organic Act of the Judiciary of Puerto Rico ("judicial statute")
Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands ("organic act")
Law Against the Formation of New Parties ("Nazi law")
Law Concerning the Reconstruction of the Reich ("Nazi law")
Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act ("securities law")
Missouri Compromise ("legislative act")
California Environmental Quality Act
Code of the District of Columbia ("legal code")
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act ("tariff law")
Sedition Act of 1918 ("speech restriction law")
Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998
Smith Act ("criminal law statute")
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q) ("criminal law statute")
Funding Act of 1790 ("public law")
Public Law 96-510 ("Superfund law")
Gag Law (Ley de la Mordaza) ("Puerto Rican statute")
Summer Time Act 1916 ("time-related legislation")
Section 4(b) ("statutory provision")
Title IX—National Intelligence Academy ("statutory provision")
Fair Housing Act of 1968 ("fair housing law")
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1937 ("public law")
United States debt ceiling ("statutory limit")
Continental Congress resolutions ("legislative act")
Acts of Union 1707 ("parliamentary act")
Act of Settlement 1701 ("Act of Parliament")
PROTECT Act ("criminal law statute")
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act ("abortion law")
NurembergLaws ("antisemitic legislation")
ORTA ("technology transfer statute")
California Endangered Species Act ("state statute")
Imperial Ordinances of Japan ("source of law")
Administrative Procedure Act ("administrative law statute")
Securities Act Amendments of 1964 ("securities law")
Public Law 103-308 ("public law")
United States Statutes at Large ("official legal publication")
84-851 ("public law")
California Education Code ("body of law")
Statute of Labourers 1351 ("English statute")
Statute of Treasons 1351 ("Act of Parliament")
Title VI Miscellaneous Provisions ("statutory provision")
Alien and Sedition Acts ("series of laws")
Public Law 99-508 ("surveillance law")
INA ("immigration law")
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("immigration law")
Acts of the Parliament of Scotland relating to peerage ("body of legislation")
Immigration Act of 1990 ("immigration law")
Union Territories Act, 1963 ("Indian statute")
All India Services Act, 1951 ("Indian statute")
Laws of the Indies ("legal code")
Organic Law of the Legislative Function
Enabling Act of 1933 ("German federal law")
Metropolitan Police Act 1829 ("police legislation")
Catholic Emancipation Act 1829 ("British statute")
Act of the Imperial Legislative Council ("type of statute")
Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997
Six Acts ("series of laws")
Morley–Minto Reforms ("legislation")
French public law ("public law")
Tariff Act of 1790 ("tariff law")
National Gallery Act 1975 ("Act of Parliament")
Bundesbank Act ("German federal law")
Constitution Act 1855 (New South Wales) ("Act of Parliament")
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament ("type of legislation")
Title 11 of the United States Code ("bankruptcy code")
Rules Enabling Act ("procedural law statute")
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("Superfund law")
Cornwallis Code in India ("legal code")
California Code of Civil Procedure ("statutory law")
Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 ("United Kingdom statute")
Acts of Senedd Cymru ("primary legislation")
Charter Act 1793 ("British statute")
Social Security Amendments of 1965 ("health care reform law")
Napoleonic Code ("civil code")
California Fish and Game Code ("state statute")
foreign service law of Germany ("public law")
Hertzog Bills ("South African legislation")
Constitution Act, 1867 ("Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom")
Republic Act No. 8491 ("Philippine statute")
Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China ("national statute")
Duchy of Cornwall Act 1844 ("United Kingdom statute")
OAR ("legal code")
Veterans’ Judicial Review Act ("veterans law statute")
Regulation (EC) No 294/2008 ("legislative act")
Montgomery County Code ("legal code")
civil code of the People's Republic of China ("civil code")
Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act of 1999
42 U.S.C. § 1983 ("civil rights statute")
Rule 8 ("provision of law")
Organic Law of the People's Procuratorates of the People's Republic of China ("fundamental statute")
United States constitutional law ("body of law")
Acts_of_Parliament_of_Belize ("type of legislation")
Model Rules of Professional Conduct ("model law")
Duchy of Cornwall Act 1863 ("United Kingdom statute")
ACA ("health care reform law")
Public Law 111-148 ("health care reform law")
Birmingham municipal code ("municipal code")
Magnuson Act of 1943 ("immigration law")
Page Act of 1875 ("immigration law")
Public Law 600 of the United States ("organic act")
Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022
Kentucky Revised Statutes ("codified law")
San Francisco Administrative Code ("municipal code")
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 ("organic act")
San Francisco Municipal Code ("municipal code")
Australian Notes Act 1910 ("Act of Parliament")
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 ("United Kingdom statute")
Chapter 9 – Agency Chief Financial Officers ("legal provision")
Chapter 33 – Depositing, Keeping, and Paying Money ("statutory provision")
Tea Act ("Act of Parliament of Great Britain")
Bank of England Act 1998 ("United Kingdom statute")
Financial Services Act 2012 ("United Kingdom statute")
Chapter III of the Constitution of Japan ("legal text")
Special Powers Act ("legislation")
United States law ("national law")
United States territorial law ("body of law")
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 ("land trust statute")
New Model Army Ordinance ("English statute")
Electoral Act 1993 ("Act of Parliament")
Salic law ("legal code")
Official Secrets Act 1989 ("United Kingdom statute")
Rebuilding of London Act 1666
Placer County Code ("municipal code")