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Statute staple
Statute Stat"ute, n. [F. statut, LL. statutum, from L. statutus, p. p. of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr. status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constitute, Destitute.] 1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a. --Bouvier. Note: Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies, legislature laws of the sovereign are called edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc. In works on international law and in the Roman law, the term is used as embracing all laws imposed by competent authority. Statutes in this sense are divided into statutes real, statutes personal, and statutes mixed; statutes real applying to immovables; statutes personal to movables; and statutes mixed to both classes of property. 2. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university. 3. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. --Halliwell. Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts. --Blackstone. Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] --Halliwell. Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above. Statute labor, a definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in certain English colonies. Statute merchant (Eng. Law), a bond of record pursuant to the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; -- called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into disuse. --Tomlins. --Bouvier. Statute mile. See under Mile. Statute of limitations (Law), a statute assigned a certain time, after which rights can not be enforced by action. Statute staple, a bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may, on nonpayment, forthwith have execution against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, as in the statute merchant. It is now disused. --Blackstone. Syn: Act; regulation; edict; decree. See Law.

Meaning of Statute staple from wikipedia

- after the economic crisis caused by the Black Death. The staple towns named in the statute were at Newcastle upon Tyne, York, Lincoln, Norwich, Westminster...
- Statute merchant (Latin: Statutum mercatorum) and statute staple are two old forms of security, long obsolete in English practice, though references to...
- The term Staple Act may refer to any of the following pieces of legislation:- Statute of the Staple, a 1353 English statute Staple Act 1663, one of the...
- Surgical staple Staple (band), a Christian post-hardcore band Staple (2002 album), an album by Staple Staple (2004 album), an album by Staple Staple (EP)...
- Amsterdam Entrepôt (Amsterdam stapelmarkt) Merchants of the Staple Statute of the Staple Staple right E.g. Lodovico Guicciardini, in Descrittione di tutti...
- the staple. All people of the staple shall be ruled by the law-merchant, and not by the common law. — repealed for England and Wales by Statute Law Revision...
- was already repealed by 1 Hen. 4 c. 3. The staple 8 Hen. 6. c. 18 The whole act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125)...
- James Talbot of Agherskeethe issued on 24 April 1584; 2. 'The Irish Statute Staple Books' for 12 May 1597, where it is spelled Agherneskine. The Down Survey...
- "market-place", The "staple" of Staple was wool, exported to the Low Countries. The 'Statute of Acton Burnell' (1283) removed the Staple from Calais to fifteen...
- Northern Ireland. For medieval statutes, etc. that are not considered to be acts of Parliament, see the list of English statutes. See also the List of ordinances...