statutory law

1. 1.

   the body of laws created by legislative statutes

   Broaderlaw

   law

Questions about statutory law

What does statutory law mean?

statutory law means "the body of laws created by legislative statutes".

Is statutory law a common word?

statutory 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.