statutory
68
6.8
- 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.
- In Missouri, victims have constitutional and statutory rights.
- We should limit the statutory rights to sue the government in a broad sense.
- What's more, the statutory role of the Bundesbank was to keep the Deutsche mark sound.
- And real change can make it through not just a sliver, but real statutory change, real legislative change that can make our courts.
- We have some legal authority, we have statutory authorities, we have regulations, we have guidelines, and we set policies.
- So as you encounter each new holding of a case or each new statutory provision, you can ask yourself, is this law a rule or a standard?
- This scheme here, this statutory approach that Texas took is the reason that so many people have been executed in Texas.
- He is entitled to that two weeks statutory paternity leave, but his company is actually offering him six weeks full pay.
- For legally it's rape, if nothing else, statutory rape.
- Well, the Green Party not only in to make PSHEA statutory part in Allstate schools.
- Sweller Braveman published new statutory guidance around non crime hate instance.
Examples
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So there are many states that have adopted this the the statutory change.
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Now, that's actually critically important because banks operate with certain statutory minimum capital reserve requirements.
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Now this duty is not a statutory duty.
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the US statutory corporate tax rate has hardly changed, right?
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I have certain statutory obligations.
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We should limit the statutory rights to sue the government in a broad sense.
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We have some legal authority, we have statutory authorities, we have regulations, we have guidelines, and we set policies.
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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
∞
2.5
Relating to the law, lawyers, or what the law allows
298
6.7
About making laws or the group that makes them
Compounds
- Offensive
25
8.5
Sex with a person younger than the age the law allows, even if both agree
How Codified
- Formal
538
5.0
- Formal
68
6.8
- Formal
98
3.1
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.