Word Finder - statutory

definition

Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.

The council sits for a statutory period of three years.

In case the crop failed the Code fixed a statutory return.

Some of his statutory lectures are published in his Lectures on Mediaeval and Modern History.

Some of them have a statutory basis, others are purely contractual.

In Scotland, by the Presumption of Life (Scotland) Act 1891, the presumption is statutory.

It is now a statutory offence in all states of the Union, but the woman must be actually pregnant.

Statutory provision is also made for allowing tithes and tithe rent charge to be exchanged for land, and for the redemption of rent charges made under the acts, and also of corn rents under the local acts.

Statutory provision for the prevention of cruelty to those who are unable to protect themselves has been particularly marked in the 19th century.

In the four years and a half which elapsed between the publication of the Codex and that of the Digest, many important changes had been made in the law, notably by the publication of the Fifty Decisions," which settled many questions that had exercised the legal mind and given occasion to intricate statutory provisions.

Noteworthy, again, is the appeal to religious and ethical considerations in order to prevent injustice to the widow and fatherless and to unhappy debtors; statutory laws are either unknown, or, more probably, are presupposed.

When Governor Andros and his Council in 1687 issued an order for levying a tax, a special town meeting of Ipswich promptly voted "that the s'd act doth infringe their Liberty as Free borne English subjects of His Majestic by interfearing with ye statutory Laws of the Land, By which it is enacted that no taxes shall be levied on ye Subjects without consent of an assembly chosen by ye Freeholders for assessing the same," and refused to assess the tax.

So are private conveyances, charters of private corporations and statutory and other grants by a state.

All serious cases of crime are tried before a judge and jury, with the same formalities and safeguards as in England, while minor offences are dealt with by stipendiary magistrates possessing a limited statutory jurisdiction.

While an undergraduate he published two dissertations, On the Tree of Life in Paradise, with some Observations on the Fall of Man, and On the Oblations of Cain and Abel (2nd ed., 1747), which procured him the honour of a bachelor's degree before the statutory time.

Under these acts their management is entrusted to the commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, who have certain statutory powers as to leasing, selling, exchanging, &c.

Toll-gates are now met with only at certain bridges, where the right to levy tolls is statutory or by prescription.

Power is also given to appoint joint-committees with other county councils in matters in which the two councils are jointly interested, but a joint-committee so appointed must not be confounded with the standing joint-committee of the county council and the quarter sessions, which is a distinct statutory body and is elsewhere referred to.

The orders of the Local Government Board as to these matters are set out in the Statutory Rules and Orders.

If there is no company having statutory powers of supply within their district, they may themselves undertake the supply of gas, and they may purchase the undertaking of any gas company within their district.

The rules now in force will be found in the Statutory Rules and Orders.

An amendment which was adopted (177,615 for; 147,290 against) in November 1908, and came in effect on the 4th of December 1908, provides for initiative and referendum applying to statutory law and to constitutional amendments, but emergency measures, and appropriations for the state government, for state institutions, and for public schools are exempt from referendum.

Many of the great towns had already secured such sites within moderate distances, and had constructed reservoirs of considerable size, when, in 1879, 1880 and 1892 respectively, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham obtained statutory powers to draw water from relatively great distances, viz.

The corporation have statutory power to raise the lake 50 ft., at which level it will have an available capacity of about 8000 million gallons; to secure this a masonry dam has been constructed, though the lake is at present worked at a lower level.

To this doctrine express statutory authority (as the events have happened) has been given by 25 Hen.

And landowners were empowered to seize all vagrant able-bodied men, and to compel them to work at the statutory wages.

Under the act of 1881, down to the 31st of March 1906, the rents of 360,135 holdings, representing nearly 11,000,000 acres, had been fixed for the first statutory term of 15 years either by the land commissioners or by agreements between landlords and tenants, the aggregate reduction being over 20% as compared with the old rents.

The rents of 120,515 holdings, representing over 3,500,000 acres, had been further fixed for the second statutory term, the aggregate reduction being over 19% as compared with the first term rents.

Two statutory fairs were held under the charter of 1558, but in 1792 only one fair was held on the Monday before Michaelmas for hiring, but there is now a pleasure fair on the same day.

We need to ascertain in advance of commitment that the necessary statutory basis and other legal authorities are in place.

Without statutory status, the future of local authority services will remain precarious.

Statutory intervention has now abrogated the need for this mandatory warning in all the above cases.

Dispute Resolution This group is mostly engaged on research into the use of statutory adjudication in the UK construction industry.

The City Councils statutory polices for outdoor advertising are contained in the Unitary Development Plan.

No. There is no statutory right to have bank holidays off as paid leave.

Such an increase is not within the definition of statutory betterment.

The Pensions Act 2004 also imposes a statutory obligation on ' whistleblowers ' to report suspected breaches of the legislation to the regulator.

Due to its statutory nature determination casework has priority above non-statutory work carried out by DVs.

Bargaining councils are permanent institutions of statutory collective bargaining.

The Chancellor presides at the annual meeting of the University Court and formally confers degrees but has no other statutory duties.

She asked for the three forms of statutory declaration.

There is no statutory definition of the term for the purposes of inheritance tax.

The Treasury will be issuing soon a consultation document on the statutory cash ratio deposit scheme.

The visual, ecological and heritage values of some of the finest areas have been recognized in a variety of statutory and non-statutory designations.

Under recent changes in planning law, even these statutory designations may not be enough to protect an area from turbines.

The Addition will not apply to the creation of a wayleave, license or " statutory easement " .

It is a statutory requirement for employers to have el.

It is obvious that these statutory enactments must be in written form and must be available to those who may be affected by them.

The Government intends to extend statutory holiday entitlement to include bank holidays, giving a typical full-time worker 28 days annual leave.

In many cases contractual entitlements simply reflect the statutory minimum.

There is however, a statutory entitlement to eight weeks paid Maternity leave.