- 1a law that is passed by a government and formally written down Penalties are laid down in the statute. Corporal punishment was banned by statute in 1987. The wording of the statute is ambiguous.
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- 2a formal rule of an organization or institution Under the statutes of the university they had no power to dismiss him.
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