ute law, as ‘opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to have statutory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is given to it in certain matters by act of the legislature. 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 government, expressed with the requisite formalities. 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. 45t. 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 abbreviation for “statute merchant” or “statate staple.” See infra. —Affirmative statute. —Declaratory statute. —Enabling statute. See that title—Expository statute. See that title.—General statute. A statute relating to the whole community, or concerning all persons generally, as distinguished from a pete or special statute. 1 Bl. Comm. 85, 86; 4 Coke, 75a.—Local statute. 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 n particular district, etc.—Negative statute. A statute expressed in negative terms; a statute which prohibits a thing from being done, or declares what shall not be done. —Penal statSee AFFIRMATIVE. See DECLARATORY. 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, regulation, 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 im wherever he goes. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The term is also applied to statutes which, instead of being general, are confined in their operation to one person or group of persons. Bank of Columbia v. Walker, 14 Lea (Tenn. 308; Saul v. Creditors, 5 Mart. N. 8S. (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. ar. St. 629; State v. Chambers, 93 N.C. 600.—Public statute. A statute enacting a universal rule which regards the whole community, as distinguished from one which concerns only particular 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 property, and which do not speak of persons, except in relation to pee Story, Confl. ws, § 13; Saul v. His Creditors, 5 Mart. N. 8. (La.) 6 Am. Dec. 212.—Remedial statute. A body 582, See REMEDIAL.—Revised statutes, 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 compiled 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. Comm. Distinguished 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 Pnglish law. A security for a debt acknowledged to be due, entered into before the chief magistrate of some it, Ponders pursuant to the statute 13 kidw. I. De Mercatoribus, by which not only the body of the debtor might be imprisoned, and his goads 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 into disuse. 1 Steph. Comm. 287. See Yates v. People. 6 Johns. (N. Y.) 404.—Statute of accumulations. In English law. The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, forbidding the accumulation, beyond a certain period, o Dro settled by deed or will.—Statute of egiance 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 dist tions. See DISTRIBUTION.—Statute of Elizabcth. In English law. The statute 13 Eliz. c. 5, against conveyances made in fraud of creditors. —Statute of frauds. See FRAUDS, STATUTE Or.—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. 39!).—Statute of laborers. See LABORER.—Statute of limitations. 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 (except femes covert, infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane mer might, by will and testament 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 in socage. 2 Bi. Comm. 375.—Statute roll. <A roll upon which an English statute, after receiving the royal assent, was formerly entered.—Statute staple. See StTarLeE.—Statutes at large. Statutes printed in full and in the order of their enactment, in a collected form, 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 ix also given to an authentic cullection 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. Cooley, Const. Lim. 75, note; Arthurs, Appeal of, 1 Grant Cas. (Pa.) 57.