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Statute-book. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Statute-book † 1.  A book containing an Act of Parliament. Obs.

1 1593.  R. Holtby, in J. Morris, Troubles Cath. Forefathers (1877), 223. Some of the jury required the statute book, that they might proceed the more assuredly.

2   2.  The book containing the statutes of a nation or state; usually (sing., occas. pl.) the whole series of volumes forming the official record of the statutes. Phrase, on the statute-book.

3 a. 1648.  Ld. Herbert, Hen. VIII. (1649), 368. In which many Acts pass’d, the most materiall whereof, I have set down briefly, not always according to the order observed in the Statute-Book, but rather according to the matters handled.

4 1675.  Baxter, Cath. Theol., VIII. II. 175. They searched the whole Scripture, read over the Statute-Book, and all the Common Law-Books and Cases, that they could get.

5 1705.  Addison, Italy, St. Marino, 133. I saw in their Statute-Book a Law against such as speak disrespectfully of him.

6 1765.  Blackstone, Comm., I. Introd. § 3. 85. The oldest of these now extant, and printed in our statute books, is the famous magna carta.

7 1815.  J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 585. If the game-laws were only a dead letter on our statute-books.

8 1825.  Syd. Smith, Sp., Wks. 1859, II. 200/2. I should have said, that the disabling laws against the Catholics were a disgrace to the statute-book.

9 1827.  Hallam, Const. Hist., xvii. (1876), III. 310. We must not look to the statute-book of Scotland for many limitations of monarchy.

10 1863.  Fawcett, Pol. Econ., II. viii. (1876), 223. Our own statute-book proves that the attempt has frequently been made to regulate wages by law.

11 1871.  C. Davies, Metric Syst., III. 85. In England … the statute-books are filled with ineffectual attempts of the legislature to establish uniformity.

12   fig.  1831.  Carlyle, Sartor Res., III. viii. Those same unalterable rules, forming the complete Statute-Book of Nature.

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