The written, codified law that is passed by a governmental body, usually as a result of being passed by Congress and signed into law by the President or passed by state legislature and signed into law by the state governor. Statutes are usually contained in a volume or book called the code of law. See also ordinance which is a local law such as of a county.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
(verb) – In old Scotch law. To ordain, establish, or decree.
(noun) – An act of the legislature; a particular law enacted and established by the will of the legislative department of government, expressed with the requisite formalities. In foreign and civil law. Any particular municipal law or usage, though resting for its authority on judicial decisions, or the practice of nations. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The whole municipal law of a particular state, from whatever source arising. Story, Confl. Laws,