Both Uses of
statutory law
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- You three, Berowne, Dumain, and Longaville, Have sworn for three years' term to live with me, My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes That are recorded in this schedule here: Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names, That his own hand may strike his honour down That violates the smallest branch herein.†
Scene 1.1 *statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
- Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.†
Scene 5.2statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
Definition:
law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent) -- this is also one of the senses of the term, civil law