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statutory

statutory

68 6.8
Made or required by law
  • adjective
  • /ˈstætʃəˌtɔri/
  • Formal
: legal
  • She is required by statutory law to file her taxes by April 15th.
  • statutory law
  • statutory requirement
  • statutory minimum

In Missouri, victims have constitutional and statutory rights.

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Examples

  • So there are many states that have adopted this the the statutory change.

  • Now, that's actually critically important because banks operate with certain statutory minimum capital reserve requirements.

  • Now this duty is not a statutory duty.

  • the US statutory corporate tax rate has hardly changed, right?

  • I have certain statutory obligations.

  • We should limit the statutory rights to sue the government in a broad sense.

  • We have some legal authority, we have statutory authorities, we have regulations, we have guidelines, and we set policies.

  • The FTC faces several challenges in applying this regulatory and statutory authority to the Internet.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Malaysia's indigenes enjoy certain customary, statutory, and native title rights to land.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Consistent with TCM, lawmakers' statutory language hindered public awareness of the act's true reach.

    Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

legal
vsstatutory
∞ 2.5

Relating to the law, lawyers, or what the law allows

is narrower, focusing on rules made by a lawmaking body and written down
legislative
vsstatutory
  • Formal
298 6.7

About making laws or the group that makes them

is about rules created or authorised by written law

Compounds

statutory rape
  • Offensive
25 8.5

Sex with a person younger than the age the law allows, even if both agree

statutory law
  • Formal
1 5.9

Laws made by a parliament or congress and written down

7.7

A crime that a law makes illegal

How Codified

constitutional
  • Formal
538 5.0
statutory
  • Formal
68 6.8
codified
  • Formal
6.7
informal
98 3.1
uncodified
  • Specialized
7.1

Surface Forms

statutory positive

Morphology

statutory = statute (transparent) = statute + ory

The meaning is directly derived from 'statute' with the suffix '-ory' indicating 'relating to'.

Etymology

Statutory comes from the word statute, which means a 'written law' that is 'set' or fixed in place. So, statutory describes something that is required or allowed by those set laws.