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STATU LIBER

STATUTE

ranging facts illustrative of the condition and resources of a state. The subject is sometimes divided into (1) historical statis tics, 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 phys ical condition of the people. Wharton. STATU IiIBER. 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. La t In Louisiana. Slaves for a time, who had acquired the right of being free 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. Civ. 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. See Barney v. Tourtellotte, 138 Mass. 108; De la Montanya v. De la Montanya, 112 Cal. 115, 44 Pac. 345, 32 L. R. A. 82, 53 Am. St. Rep. 165; Dunham v. Dun ham, 57 111. App. 407. There are certain rights and duties, with cer tain capacities and incapacities to take rights and incur duties, by which persons, as subjects of law, are variously determined to certain classes. The rights, duties, capacities, or inca pacities 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 assembly 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 year's residence in any parish, not to be removed therefrom.— Status quo. The existing state of things at any given date. Status quo ante helium, the state of things before the war. Statuta pro publico oommodo late in terpretantur. Jenk. Cent. 21. Statutes made for the public good ought to be liberal ly construed. Statuta suo oluduntur territorio, nee ultra territorium disponuut. Statutes are confined to their own territory, and have no extraterritorial effect. Woodworth v. Spring, 4 Allen (Mass.) 324.

ute law, as opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to Lave stat utory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is given to it in certain matters by act of the legisla ture. STATUTE, v. In old Scotch law. To 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. In foreign and civil law. Any particular municipal law or usage, though resting for its authority on judicial decisions, or the practice 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 record, being an ab breviation for "statute merchant" or "stat ute Btaple." See infra. —Affirmative statute. See AFFIRMATIVE. —Declaratory statute. See DECLARATORY. —Enabling statute. See that title.— Expos itory statute. See that title.— General statute. A statute relating to the whole com munity, or concerning all persons generally, as distinguished from a private or special statute. 1 Bl. Comm. 85, 86; 4 Coke, 75a.— Local stat ute. Such a statute as has for its object the interest of some particular locality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of the course of a river, the formation of a public market in a particular district, etc.— Negative statute. A statute expressed in negative terms; a stat ute which prohibits a thing from being done, or declares what shall not be done— Penal stat ute. See PENAL.— Perpetual statute. One which is to remain in force without limitation as to time; one which contains no provision for its repeal, abrogation, or expiration at any future time.— Personal statutes. In foreign and modern civil law. Those statutes which have principally for their object the person, and treat of property only incidentally. Story, Confl. Laws, § 13. A personal statute, in this sense of the term, is a law, ordinance, regula tion, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person, and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity, which he does not change with every change of abode, but which, upon principles of justice and policy, he is assumed to carry with him wherever he goes. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The term is also applied to statutes which, in stead of being general, are confined in their op eration to one person or group of persons. Bank of Columbia v. Walker, 14 Lea (Tenn.) 308; Saul v. Creditors, 5 Mart N. S. (La.) 591, 16 Am. Dec. 212.— Private statute. A statute which operates only upon particular persons, and private concerns. 1 Bl. Comm. 86. An act which relates to certain individuals, or to particular classes of men. Dwar. St. 629; State v. Chambers, 93 N. C. 600.— Public statute. A statute enacting a universal rule which regards the whole community, as distin guished from one which concerns only particu lar individuals and affects only their private rights. See Code Civ. Proc. Cal. § 1898.— Real statutes. In the civil law. Statutes which have principally for their object proper ty, and which do not speak of persons, except in relation to property. Story, Confl. Laws, § 13; Saul v. His Creditors, 5 Mart N. S. (La.) 582, 16 Am. Dec. 212.— Remedial statute, See REMEDIAL,.— Revised statutes. A body

STATUTABLE, or STATUTORY, is that which is introduced or governed by stat