statutory
adjective
uk
/ˈstætʃ.ə.tər.i/ us
/ˈstætʃ.ə.tɔːr.i/Meaning of statutory in English
(Definition of statutory from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
statutory | Business English
statutory
adjective
uk
/ˈstætjətəri/ us
LAW
statutory duty/obligations/responsibilities
statutorily
adverb
The agency plans to complete all statutorily required inspections by the end of May.
Examples of statutory
statutory
The social salience theory may thus seem reminiscent of the "plain meaning" school of statutory interpretation, but there are important differences.
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It clearly allows for the possibility of legislative fallibility; legislators may create statutory rules whose applications they-individually or collectively- understand badly or not at all.
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The views of statutory and voluntary agencies working in this field were also sought.
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Generally in this area, the performance of the statutory agencies is unsatisfactory.
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The statutory notification system offers the potential advantages of being exhaustive and of allowing historical trends to be evaluated.
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Various adjustments would need to be made to extend the analysis to the role of precedent in statutory interpretation.
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The details of healthcare provision are delegated to the sickness funds and statutory healthcare physicians.
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Federal regulation thus proceeded without the leverage of statutory law, the stronger of these two regulatory traditions.
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Nothing in any theory of statutory application-meaning guarantees that every statute has at least some determinate application-meaning at every point in its existence.
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This statutory right also included home-help services, transport services, living in service houses and old people's homes.
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Deferential conventions introduce a subtlety and richness into the theory of statutory application that at times mimics applied semantic realism.
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It may seem as if statutory application in familiar, mature legal systems uses many deferential conventions.
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More specific ones include the metaphysical counterparts of theories of constitutional, statutory, and common-law interpretation.
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Although statutory and practical issues led to reconsideration of redemption payments, a sense of crisis added urgency to the project.
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The statutory force of the oath is accomplished by the evocation of these memories in the community which shares them.
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