Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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variously determined to certain classes. The rights, duties, capacities, or incapacities which determine a given person to any of these classes, constitute a condition or status with which the person is invested. Aust. Jur. § 973. STATUS DE MANERIO. The assem bly of the tenants in the court of the lord of a manor, in order to do their customary suit. STATUS OF IRREMOVABILITY In English law. The right acquired by a pauper, after one yeai 's residence in any par ish, not to be removed therefrom. STATUS QUO. Lat. The existing state of things at any given date. Status quc anU helium, the state of things before the war. Statuta pro publico commodo late in terpretantur. Jenk. Cent. 21. Statutes made for the public good ought to be liberal ly construed. Statuta suo cluduntur territorio, nee ultra territorium disponunt. Statutes are confined to their own territory, and have no extraterritorial effect. 4 Allen, 324. STATUTABLE, or STATUTORY, is that which is introduced or governed by stat ute law, as opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to have stat utory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is given to it in certain matters by act of the legisla ture. STATUTE, v. In old Scotch law. Tc ordain, establish, or decree. STATUTE, n. An act of the legislature; a particular law enacted and established by the will of the legislative department of gov ernment, expressed with the requisite for malities. Statutes are public and private. A pri vate statute is one which concerns only cei tain designated individuals, and affects onlj their private rights. All other statutes are public. Code Civil Proc. Cal. § 1898. In foreign and civil law. Any particular municipal law or usage, though resting for its authority on judicial decisions, or the prac tice of nations. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The whole municipal law of a particular state, from whatever source arising. Story, Confl. Laws, § 12. "Statute" also sometimes means a kind of bond or obligation of lecord, being an ab breviation for "statute merchant" or "stat ute staple," (q. v.) For different kinds of statutes, see AF FIRMATIVE STATUTE; DECLARATORY STAT UTE; ENABLING STATUTE; NEGATIVE STAT

STATION. In the civil law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 50,16* 69. STATIONERS' HALL. In English law. The hall of the stationers' company, at which every person claiming copyright in a book must register his title, in order to be able to bring actions against persons infringing it. 2 Steph. Comm. 37-39. STATIONERY OFFICE. In English law. A government office established as a department of the treasury, for the purpose of supplying government offices with station ery and books, and of printing and publish ing government papers. ST A.TIST. A statesman; a politician; one «kill'3d in government. STATISTICS. That part of political science which is concerned in collecting and arranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into (1) historical statist ics, or facts which illustrate the former con dition of a state; (2) statistics of population; (3) of revenue; (4) of trade, commerce, and navigation; (5) of the moral, social, and physical condition of the people. Wharton. STATTJ LIBER. Lat. In Roman law. One who is made free by will under a condi tion, one who has his liberty fixed and ap pointed at a certain time or on a certain con dition. Dig. 40, 7. STATU LIBERI. Lat. In Louisiana. Slaves for a time, who had acquired the right of being tree at a time to come, or on a con dition which was not fulfilled, or in a certain event which had not happened, but who in the mean time remained in a state of slavery. Civil Code La. (Ed. 1838,) art. 37. STATUS. The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with her husband has been made, but before it has been made absolute, is that of a married wo man, we mean that she has the same legal rights, liabilities, and disabilities as an ordi nary married woman. The term is chiefly applied to persons under disability, or per sons who have some peculiar condition which prevents the general law from applying to them in the same way as it does to ordinary persons. Sweet. There are certain rights and duties, with certain capacities and incapacities to take rights and incur duties, by which persons, aa subjects of law, are AM.DICT.LAW—71

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