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Statute

Statute, a law, an edict of the legislature, an Act of Parliament. See ACT OF PARLIAMENT. A law passed

Statutable, according to statute. Prescribed or authorised by statutes 2. conformed to legislative requirements for quality, size, amount, or the like, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

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statute

statute [Latin statutum law, regulation, from neuter of statutus, past participle of statuere to set up, station, from status

Interpretation of Statute

Statute, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289: (1979) 2 SCR 148. Interpretation of Statutes, as a general principle of interpretation, where the words of a statute are plain, precise and unambiguous, the