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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English status, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French statut, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“I set up, establish”).

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈstætʃuːt/

statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. Written law, as laid down by the legislature.
2. (law, common law) Legislated rule of society which has been given the force of law by those it governs.

• statutory
• statutorily
• statutory rape

• “statute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “statute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• tautest

(deprecated template usage) statūte

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative masculine singular of statūtus

• “statute”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers