KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

1108

STATUTE

STAURUM

of statutes which have been revised, collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole; this is the legal title of the collections of com piled laws of several of the states and also of the United States.— Special statute. One which operates only upon particular persons and private concerns. 1 Bl. Oomm. 86. Dis tinguished from a general or public 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 magistrate 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 satisfaction 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 satisfied. 2 Bl. Comm. 160. Now fallen in to disuse. 1 Steph. Comm. 287. See Yates v. People, 6 Johns. (N. Y.) 404.— Statute of ac cumulations. In English law. The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, forbidding the accumu lation, beyond a certain period, of property set tled by deed or will.— Statute of allegiance de facto. An act of 11 Hen. VII. c. 1, re quiring subjects to give their allegiance to the actual king for the time being, and protecting them in so doing.— Statute of distributions. See DISTRIBUTION.— Statute of Elizabeth.. In English law. The statute 13 Eliz. c. 5, against conveyances made in fraud of creditors. —Statute of frauds. See FBAUDS, 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 enact ment, and was the first statute giving costs in actions. 3 Bl. Comm. 399— Statute of la borers. See LABOBEB.— Statute of limita tions. See LIMITATION.— Statute of uses. See USE.— Statute of wills. In English law. The statute 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, which enacted that all persons being seised in fee-simple (ex cept femes covert, infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane memory might, by will and testa ment in writing, devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two-thirds of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held 1 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. See STAPLE.— Statutes at large. Statutes printed in full and in the order of their enactment, in a collected form, as distin guished 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 rthe British parliament from very early times to the present day. Statutes in derogation of common law must be strictly construed. Cooley, Const. Lim. 75, note; Arthurs, Appeal of, 1 Grant Cas. (Pa.) 57. 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 to Constantine to that of Justinian. STATUTORY. Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute; required by a statute; conforming to a statute. .—Statutory crime. See CBIME.— Statutory dedication. See DEDICATION.— Statutory exposition. When the language of a statute

is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a particular interpretation of the for mer act, it is said to contain a statutory expo sition of the former act. Wharton.— Statuto ry foreclosure. See FOBEGLOSURE.— Stat utory obligation. An obligation—whether to pay money, t perform 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 re lationships.— Statutory release. A convey ance which superseded the 1 old compound assur ance by lease and release. It was created by St. 4 & 5 Vict c. 21, which abolished the lease for a year. In the civil law. Established; determined. A term applied to judicial action. Dig. 50, 16, 46, pr. In old English law. A statute; an ad of parliament. — Statutum de mercatoribus. The statute of Acton Burnell. (q. v.)— Statutum Hiber niae de cohaeredibus. The statute 14 Hen. III. The third public act in the statute-book. It has been pronounced not to be a statute. In the form of it, it appears to be an instruction given by the king to his justices in Ireland', di recting them how to proceed in a certain point where they entertained a doubt It seems the justices itinerant in that country had a doubt when land descended to sisters, whether the younger sisters ought to hold of the eldest, and do homage to her for their several portions, or of the chief lord, and do homage to him; and certain knights had been sent over to know what the practice was in England in such a case. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 259.— Statutum sessionum. In old English law. The statute session; a meeting in every hundred of consta bles and householders, by custom, for the order ing of servants, and debating of differences be tween masters and servants, rating of wages, etc. 5 Eliz. c. 4.— Statutum Wallise. The statute of Wales. The title of a statute passed in the twelfth year of Edw. I., being a sort of constitution for the principality of Wales, which was thereby, in a great measure, put on the footing of England with respect to its laws and the administration of justice. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 93, 94. Statutum affirmativum non derogat communi legi. Jenk. Cent 24. An affirma tive statute does not derogate from the com mon law. Statutum ex gratia regis dicitur, quan do rex dignatur cedere de jure suo regio, pro commodo et quiete populi sui. 2 Inst. 378. A statute is said to be by the grace of the king, when the king deigns to yield some portion of his royal rights for the good and quiet of his people. Statutum generaliter est intelligen dum quando verba statuti sunt specialia, ratio autem generalis. When the words of a statute are special, but the reason of it general, the statute is to be understood gen erally. 10 Coke, 101. Statutum speciale statuto special! non derogat. Jenk. Cent 199. One special stat ute does not take from another special stat ute. STAURUM. In old records. A store, or stock of cattle. A term of common occur* STATUTUM. Lat.