Word Meanings - STATUTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.

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• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• ENACTURE
  Enactment; resolution. Shak.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• ENACTOR
  One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.
• DEPENDENCY
  1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that
• STATUTORY
  Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
• DEPENDABLE
  Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.
• STATUTE
  of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr. status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constitute, 1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law;
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• PROVISION
  A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation. (more info) 1. The act of providing, or making previous preparation. Shak. 2. That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought
• DEPENDER
  One who depends; a dependent.
• ENACTIVE
  Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall.
• DEPEND
  Etym: 1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope. 2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will
• DEPENDENTLY
  In a dependent manner.
• PROVISIONALLY
  By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Locke.
• DEPENDANT; DEPENDANCE; DEPENDANCY
  See DEPENDENT
• ENACT
  1. To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to which gives it the validity of law. 2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. The king enacts more wonders
• DEPENDINGLY
  As having dependence. Hale.
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SELF-DEPENDING
  Depending on one's self.
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• INTERDEPENDENCY
  Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.
• IMPROVISION
  Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.
• REENACT
  To enact again.
• INDEPENDENCE
  1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as