statute law

1. 1.

   law enacted by a legislative body

   Synonymslegislation

   Broadercivil law

   Narrowerenabling legislationoccupational safety and health act

   Part ofstatute book

   law

Questions about statute law

What does statute law mean?

statute law means "law enacted by a legislative body".

What is another word for statute law?

Close synonyms include legislation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is statute law a common word?

statute law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.