STATUTUM

Latin: In the civil law. Established; determined. A term applied to judicial action. Dig. 50, 16, 46, pr. In old English law. A statute; an act of parliament Statutum do mercatoribus. The statute of Acton Burnell. (q. t?.)-Statutum Hibernis de cohaeredibus. The statute 14 Hen. III. The third public act in the statute-book, It has been pronounced not to be a statute. In the form of it, it appears to be an instruction given by the king to his justices in Ireland, directing them how to proceed in a certain point where they entertained’ a doubt. It seems the justices itinerant in that country had a doubt when land descended to sisters, whether the younger sisters ought to hold of the eldest and do homage to her for their several portions, or of the chief lord, and do homage to him; and certain knights had been sent over to know what the practice was in England in such a case. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 259. Statutum sessionum. In old English law. The statute session; a meeting in every hundred of constables and householders, by custom, for the ordering of servants, and debating of differences between masters and servants, rating of wages, etc, 5 Eliz. c 4. Statutum Wallise. The statute of Wales. The title of a statute passed in the twelfth year of EMw. I., being a sort of constitution for the principality of Wales, which was thereby, in a great measure, put on the footing of England with respect to its laws and the administration of justice. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 93, 94. Statutum affirmatiTum non derogat eommnni legi. Jenk. Cent 24. An affirmative statute does not derogate from the common law. Statutum en gratia regis dieitur, q.uaav-do rex dignatur cedere de jure suo regio, pro eammodo et quiete populi sui. 2 Inst 878. A statute is said to be by the grace of the king, when the king deigns to yield some portion of his royal rights for the good and quiet of his people. Statutum generaliter est intelligem-dum quando verba statnti sunt speeialia, ratio autem generally. When the words of a statute are special, but the reason of It general, the statute is to be understood generally. 10 Coke, 101. Statutum speoiale statuto speciali mon derogat. Jenk. Cent 199. One special statute does not take from another special statute.