Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

STATUTE FAIR

1122 STATUTORY OBLIGATION

enacted that all persons being seised in fee simple (except femes covert, infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane memory) might, by will and testament in writing, devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two thirds of their lands, tenements, and heredit aments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 375. STATUTE ROLL. A roll upon which an English statute, after receiving the royal assent, was formerly entered. STATUTE-STAPLE. In English law. A security for a debt acknowleged to be due, so called from its being entered into before the mayor of the staple, that is to say, the grand mart for the principal commodities or manufactures of the kingdom, formerly held by act of parliament in certain trading towns. In other respects it resembled the statute merchant, (q. v.,) but like that has now fallen into disuse. 2 Bl. Comm. 160; 1 Steph. Comm. 287. STATUTES AT LARGE. Statutes printed in full and in the order of their en actment, in a collected torm, as distinguished from any digest, revision, abridgment, or compilation of them. Thus the volumes of " United States Statutes at Large," contain all the acts of congress in their order. The name is also given to an authentic collection of the various statutes which have been passed by the British parliament from very early times to the present day. Statutes in derogation of common law must be strictly construed. 1 Grant, Cas. 57; Cooley, Const. Lim. 75, note. STATUTI. Lat. In Roman law. Li censed or registered advocates; members of the college of advocates. The number of these was limited, and they enjoyed special privileges from the time of Constantine to that of Justinian. STATUTORY EXPOSITION. When the language of a statute is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a partic ular interpretation ot the former act, it is said to contain a statutory exposition of the former act. Wharton. STATUTORY OBLIGATION. An obligation—whether to pay money, peifoim certain acts, or discharge certain duties— which is created by or arises out of a statute, as distinguished from one founded upon acts between parties or jural relationships.

UTE; PENAL STATUTE; PRIVATE STATUTE; PUBLIC STATUTE; REMEDIAL STATUTE. STATUTE FAIR. In English law. A fair at which laborers of both sexes stood and offered themselves for hire; sometimes called also "Mop." STATUTE-MERCHANT. In English law. A security for a debt acknowledged to be due, entered into before the chief magis trate of some trading town, pursuant to the statute 13 Edw. I. De Mercatoribus, by which not only the body of the debtor might be imprisoned, and his goods seized in satis faction of the debt, but also his lands might be delivered to the creditor till out of the rents and profits of them the debt be satis fied. 2 Bl. Comm. 160. Now fallen into disuse. 1 Steph. Comm. 287. STATUTE OF ACCUMULATIONS. In English law. The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, forbidding the accumulation, beyond a certain period, of property settled by deed or will. STATUTE OF ALLEGIANCE DE FACTO. An act of 11 Hen. VII. c. 1, requir ing subjects to give their allegiance to the actual king for the time being, and protecting them in so doing. STATUTE OF DISTRIBUTIONS. A law prescribing the manner of the distribu tion of the estate of an intestate among his heirs or relatives. Such statutes exist in all the states. STATUTE OF ELIZABETH. In En glish law. The statute 13 Eliz. c. 5, against conveyances made in fraud of creditors. STATUTE OF FRAUDS. SeeFRAUDS, STATUTE OF. STATUTE OF GLOUCESTER. In English law. The statute 6 Edw. I. c. 1, A. D. 1278. It takes its name from the place of its enactment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions. 3 Bl. Comm. 399. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. L statute prescribing limitations to the right of action on certain described causes of ac tion; that is, declaring that no suit shall be maintained on such causes of action unless brought within a specified period after the right accrued. STATUTE OF USES. See USE. STATUTE OF WILLS. In English law. The statute 32 Hen. YIIL c. 1, which

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