Law and Statutory

Law

Law noun - A rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature.

Statutory and law are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Statutory" instead an adjective "Law".

Nearby Words: lawful, lawless, laws, lawfulness, lawfully

Statutory

Statutory adjective - Relating to or created by statutes.
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Synonyms for Statutory

Law and statutory are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Law" instead an adjective "Statutory".

Nearby Word: statute

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Both words in one sentence

  • Up until recently, murder wasn't even a statutory crime in the UK; this comes under the category of a "common law offence", where the legality of an action is set by court precedent and not statute.
  • Under the law, consent cannot be given, so it's not just sexual harassment, it's statutory rape.
    Source: Hollywood Law
  • This is an interesting approach to the Theory of Narrative Causality, which elsewhere on the Disc is treated more as a physical law than a statutory one.
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