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Statute :: Statute (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university..

Arrayer :: Arrayer (n.) One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered..

Ohm :: Ohm (n.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the tempera

Enactment :: Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment..

Psephism :: Psephism (n.) A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute..

Provision :: Provision (n.) That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions..

Purview :: Purview (n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with Be it enacted, as distinguished from the preamble..

Owling :: Owling (v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

Injunction :: Injunction (n.) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ..

Statutory :: Statute (a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.

Acre :: Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English..

Schedule :: Schedule (n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc..

Staunch :: Statutory (a.) Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision..

Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law..

Statute :: Statutably (adv.) Conformably to statute.

Lancegaye :: Lancegaye (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.

Statutably :: Statutable (a.) Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures..

Rubric :: Rubric (n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.

Purview :: Purview (n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.

Revise :: Revise (v. t.) To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary..

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