statuminate 
(-miii-), a prop, stay. < statuere, cause 
to stand, set up, fix upright: see statue.] To 
prop; support. 
I will statuminate and under-prop thee. 
B. Jonson, New Inn, ii. 2. 
Stature (stat'ur), n. [< ME. stature, < OF. 
(and F.) stature = Sp. Pg. cstatura = It. statimi, 
< L. statura, heiglit or size of the body, stature, 
size, growth, < statuere, cause to stand, set up: 
see statute.'] 1. The natural height of an an- 
imal body; bodily tallness; sometimes, full 
height: generally used of the human body. 
The Loud of Pigmaus, where that the folk ben of litylle 
Stature that ben but 3 Span long. 
Mandecille, Travels, p. 211. 
Unto stature this damsel was grown. 
Catalan's Garland (Child's Ballads, VIII. 174). 
2f. A statue. [An erroneous use, due to con- 
fusion with statue.] 
And then before her [Diana's) stature straight he told 
Devoutly all his whole petition there. 
Mir. fur Mags., I. 29. 
In the second house there is the stature of a man of sil- 
uer - Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 236. 
statured (stat'urd), o. [< stature + -ed^.] if. 
Of the height or stature of. 
Were thy dimension but a stride, 
Nay, wert thou statur'd but a span, 
She'll make thee Mimas. Quarles, Emblems, ii. 6. 
2. Of or arrived at full stature. The Century 
XXXIII. 48. [Rare.] 3f. Conditioned; cir- 
cumstanced. 
They (Tusser and Churchyard] being mark'd alike in 
their poeticall parts, living in the same time, and statur'd 
alike in their estates. Fuller, Worthies, Essex, I. 619. 
Status (sta'tus), n. [< L. status, standing, posi- 
tion, attitude, state: see state.] 1. Standing 
or position as regards rank or condition. 
2. Position of affairs. 3. In law, the stand- 
ing of a person before the law in the class of 
persons indicated by his or her legal qualities; 
the relation fixed by law in which a person 
stands toward others or the state. Different 
writers vary much in the extent of meaning implied, but 
in the best usage it includes liberty, citizenship, and mar- 
riage, infancy and majority and wardship or tutelage, and 
mental capacity or incapacity according to legal tests. It 
is rarely If ever used of any of those relations which are 
terminable by consent, such as partnership. Status 
quo, the condition in which (the thing or things were at 
first or are now). Compare in statu quo. 
statutable (stat'u-ta-bl), a. [< statute + -able.] 
1. Made, required, orimposed by statute; statu- 
tory: as, a statutable punishment. 2. Allowed 
by the rules ; standard. 
I met with one the other day who was at least three 
inches above five foot, which you know is the statutable 
measure of that club. Addison, Spectator, No. 108. 
statutably (stat'u-ta-bli), adv. In a manner 
agreeable to statute ; as required or provided 
by statute. 
statute (stat'ut), n. [< ME. statut, < OF. statut, 
estatut, statu, F. statut = Pr. statut = Sp. Pg. 
estatuto = It. statuta, statuto = D. statuut = G. 
Sw. Dan. statut, < LL. statutum, a statute, prop, 
neut. of L. statutus, pp. of statuere, set up, estab- 
lish: see stand.] 1. An ordinance or law ; spe- 
cifically, a law promulgated in writing by a le- 
gislative body ; an enactment by a legislature ; 
in the United States, an act of Congress or of a 
State or Territorial legislature passed and pro- 
mulgated according to constitutional require- 
ments ; in Great Britain, an act of Parliament 
made by the Sovereign by and with the advice of 
the Lords and Commons. Some early statutes are in 
the form of charters or ordinances, proceeding from the 
crown, the consent of the Lords and Commons not being 
expressed. Statutes are either public or private (in the 
latter case affecting an individual or a company) ; but the 
term is usually restricted to public acts of a general and 
permanent character. Strictly speaking, an ordinance 
established by either house of the legislature, or by both, 
without the assent of the executive, as a resolution, or 
Joint resolution, is not a statute. The word has some- 
times, however, been interpreted to include municipal 
ordinances. See also act. article, bill*, by-law, charter, 
code, decree, edict, law, ordinance, petition, provision. 
Ac whiles Hunger was her maister there wolde none of 
hem chyde, 
Ne stryue ajdnes his statut so sterneliche he loked. 
Piers Plowman (BX vi. 321. 
The statutes of the Lord are right. Ps. xlx. 8. 
Girded with frumps and curtail gibes, by one who 
makes sentences by the Statute, as If all above three inches 
long were conflscat. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
What are called in England constitutional statutes, such 
as Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, the Act of Settle- 
ment, the Acts of Union with Scotland and Ireland, are 
merely ordinary laws, which could be repealed by Parlia- 
ment at any moment in exactly the same way as it can re- 
peal a highway act or lower the duty on tobacco. 
J. Bryce, American Commonwealth, I. 237. 
2. The act of a corporation or of its founder, 
intended as a permanent rule or law: as, the 
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statutes of a university. 3. Inforrii/ii <m<l riril 
law, any particular municipal law or usage, 
though not resting for its authority on judicial 
decisions or the practice of nations. Jiurrill ; 
Worcester. 4. A statute-fair. [Prov. Eng.] 
Bloody statute, an occasional name of the Act of the Six 
Articles. See the Six Articles, under article. -Declara- 
tory statute. See declaratory. Directory statute 
See directory. Enabling Statute, a statute which con- 
fers a power upon a person or body that did not previously 
possess it. Enlarging statute, a statute which Increases 
a power that already existed. Equity of a statute 
See equity. Estate by statute, more fully estate by 
statute merchant, or estate fay statute staple, in 
my. law, the estate or tenancy which a creditor acquired 
in the lands of his debtor by their seizure on judgments 
by confession in forms now obsolete. See statute merchant 
and statute staple, below. General statute, a statute 
which relates directly to the government or the general 
public interest, or to all the people of the state or of a 
particular class, condition, or district therein. See lei/is, 
lation, also public statute and local statute. Local Stat- 
ute. See local legislation, under local. Mandatory Stat- 
ute. Sec mandatory. Penal Statutes. See penal. 
Private statutes, (a) See private acts, under prieate. (b) 
Same as special statute. Public Statutes. See public acts, 
under public. Remedial statutes, statutes the main 
object of which appears directly beneficent, by supplying 
some defect in the law or removing inconveniences, as dis- 
tinguished from those the immediate aspect of which is to 
impose punishment or penalty, which are called penal stat- 
utes. Some statutes partake of both characters, for a stat- 
ute which is penal as against an offender may be remedial 
as toward those whom it is intended to protect Retro- 
active Statute. See retroactive. Special or private 
Statute, a statute which the courts will not notice unless 
pleaded and proved like any other fact ; also, a particular 
or peculiar statute : as, there is a special statute regulating 
chattel mortgages on canal-boats. statute against be- 
nevolences, an English statute of 1483-4 (1 Rich. III., c. -2) 
abolishing the peculiar system of raising money by solici- 
tation, called benevolences, and declaring that such exac- 
tions should not be taken for precedent. Statute cap 
See capi. Statute de Donis, more fully Statute de 
Donis Conditionalibus, an English statute of 1285 (13 
Edw. I. , being the Statute of Westminster, ii. c. 1) intended 
to put an end to the common-law doctrine that under a gift 
to a man and the heirs of his body he acquired absolute title 
by having issue, even though none should survive. The act 
prescribed instead that the condition stated by the giver of 
reversion in failure of issue should be carried into effect 
Also sometimes called statute of entail. Statute labor 
See labori. Statute lacet. See lace. Statute law, a 
law or rule of action prescribed or enacted by the legisla- 
tive power, and promulgated and recorded in writing ; 
also, collectively, the enactments of a legislative assembly, 
in contradistinction to common law. See lawi. Statute 
merchant, in law, a bond of record, now obsolete ac- 
knowledged before the chief magistrate of some trading 
town, on which, il not paid at the day, an execution 
might be awarded against the body, lands, and goods of 
the obligor. See pocket-judymeiit. 
A certaine blinde retayler, called the Diuell, vsed to 
lend money vpon pawnes or anie thing, and would let one 
for a need haue a thousand poundes vpon a statute-mer- 
chant of his soule. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 9. 
Statute of bread and ale. See breadi. Statute of 
charitable uses, an English statute of 1601 (43 Eliz. c. 4) 
sometimes called the statute of Elizabeth, for the protec- 
tion of property devoted to charities. It authorized the 
lord chancellor to appoint commissioners to inquire into 
the management of such property, with power to correct 
abuses. Statute of Circumspecte Agatis, an English 
statute of 1285 (13 Edw. I.X in theformof a writ addressed 
to the judges : so named from its first two words. It di- 
rected that the king's prohibition should not lie in spiritu- 
al matters, and that the jurisdiction of the spiritual courts 
should be exercised in cases of demands by a parson for 
tithes, mortuaries, pensions, etc., notwithstanding such 
prohibition. Statute of false pretenses, an English 
statute of 1757 (30 Geo. II. , c. 24) which defines and punishes 
the crime of false pretenses. Statute of fraudulent 
conveyances, sometimes called the statute of Elizabeth, 
(a) An English statute of 1571 (13 Eliz., c. 5X reenacted in 
statuvolic 
evaded their feudalducstothechifflunl lp> claiming tohold 
under the seller as their lord, provided that upon all sales or 
feoffmcnts of land in fee simple the feoffee should hold, 
not of his immediate feottor, but of the next lord par- 
amount of whom the feolfor himself held, and by the same 
services, thus putting an end to subinfeudation lor sev- 
eral centuries. Statute Of Rageman, an English stat- 
ute of 1276 (4 Edw. I.) requiring justices to "go through- 
out the land" to try suits for trespasses. Statute of 
Rutland, Ruddlan, or Rothlan, an English royal ordi- 
nanci-of 1 -2*4(12 Edw. I.X made at Rutland, which, among 
other things, forbade suits in the Exchequer except Mich 
Ueonoorned tin- king and his officers, and referred to the 
keeping of the rolls, etc. Also called provisions made in 
the Excheguer.-Sta.tnte of sheriffs. Same as statute 
of Lincnlii. Statute of Stamford, an English statute 
of 130!)(.-i Edw. II.) which confirmed an act of 28 Edw. I. 
abolishing the taking of goods, etc., by the king when on 
a journey except upon payment, and also abolished cer- 
tain customs duties. Statute of Winchester or Win- 
ton, an English statute of 1285 (is Edw. I.) containing 
Eolice regulations such as concern lesser crimes and the 
ue and cry, and prohibiting fairs and markets In church- 
yards. Statute of York, an English statute of 1318(12 
Edw. II.) which relates to the administration of justice. 
Statutes of liveries, English statutes, the first of which 
were in 1377 (1 Rich. II., c. 7X 1392-3 (16 Rich. II., c. 4), 
and 1396-7 (20 Rich. II., cc. 1 and 2), for the better pres- 
ervation of the peace : so called because directed against 
the practice of giving distinctive liveries to retainers and 
partizans, whereby confederacies and hostile parties were 
engendered. Statutes of Westminster, early English 
statutes, so called because made at Westminster. "The 
first " (1275), comprising fifty-one chapters, relates to free- 
dom of elections, amercements, bail, extortion by officers, 
aid taken by lords, etc. "The second" (1285), Including 
fifty chapters, relates to gifts, writs, pleas, court-proceed- 
ings, etc. Also known as Statute de Donis (which see 
above). "The third" was the statute "Quia Emptores" 
(which see, aboveX Statute staple, in lav, a bond of 
record, now obsolete, acknowledged before the mayor of 
the staple or town constituting a grand mart, by virtue of 
which the creditor might forthwith have execution against 
the body, lands, and goods of the debtor on non-payment. 
There is not one gentleman amongst twenty but his 
land be engaged in twenty statutes staple. 
Middleton, Family of Love, i. 3. 
The Great Statute, an English code of customs law of 
1660 (12Car. II., c. 4.) imposing duties which were termed 
the "old subsidy." (As to noted statutes on particular 
subjects, such as statute of distributions, statute of enrol- 
ment, statute of fines, statute of frauds, statutes of jeofaU, 
statute of Jewry, statute of limitations, statutes of mort- 
main, statute of murders, statute of non-claim, statute of 
preemunire, statute of provisors, statute of staple, statute 
of tillage, statute of uses, statute of wills, see the word char- 
acterizing the statute.) = Syn. 1. Enactment, Ordinance, 
etc. See Jawl. 
Statutet (stat'ut), t-. t. [< statute, n.] To or- 
dain; enact; decree or establish. 
The king hath ordeined and statuted that all and singu- 
lar strangers . . . shall apply and come to his Towne of 
Northberne. Hakluyts Voyages, I. 186. 
Statute-book (stat'ut-buk), M. A register of 
statutes, laws, or" legislative acts: a generic 
term commonly used to comprehend all the vol- 
umes in which the statute law of a state or na- 
tion is authoritatively promulgated. 
Statute-fair (stat'ut-f ar) , . A fair held by reg- 
ular legal appointment, in contradistinction to 
one authorized only by use and wont. See 
wop 8 , 4. 
Statute-roll (stat'ut-rol), . 1 . A statute as en- 
rolled or engrossed. 2. A collection of stat- 
utes; a statute-book. 
His [Edward IV. 's] statute-roll contains no acts for se- 
curing or increasing public liberties. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist, i 373. 
Statutory (stat'u-to-ri), a. [< statute + -ory.] 
Enacted, required, or imposed by statute ; de- 
ances of property with intent to delay, hinder, or defraud 
creditors to be void as against such creditors. (b) An 
English statute of 1585 (27 Eliz., c. 4) making void all con- 
veyances of land made with intent to deceive purchasers 
Statute of Gloucester, an English statute of 1278 (6 
Edw. I.X passed at Gloucester, and relating to local fran- 
chises and judicature, damages to real property, waste, 
trespass, etc. Statute Of laborers, an English statute 
, , 
of 1349 (23 Edw. III.) designed to compel workmen and 
servants to work for the wages commonly paid in the 
year 1346 : enacted because the pestilence had seriously 
decreased the number of servants, and the survivors de- 
manded exorbitant wages. Statute of Lincoln an^Eng- 
lish statute of 1315 - 16 (9 Edw. II. , st. 2), so called because 
the Parliament sat at Lincoln. It prescribed the qualifi- 
cations of sheriffs. Also known as the statute of sheriffs. 
Statute of Marlborough (Marleberge, Marlbridge), 
an English statute of 1267 (62 Hen. III.), so called because 
made at Marlborough, containing twenty-nine chapters 
or sections relating principally to distress suits, land- 
lord and tenant, courts, writs, etc. It is one of the ear- 
liest written laws, after the Great Charter, and Is said to 
have been intended to defeat attempts to evade feudal 
dues on succession at death made by gifts inter vivos. 
Statute of merchants (also known as the statute of 
Acton Burnett, from the place of its enactment), (a) Ail 
English statute or ordinance of 1283 (11 Edw. I.) for the 
collection of debts, (b) Another of 1285 (13 Edw. I.) for 
the same purpose. Statute of Merton. Same as pro- 
visions of Merton (which see, under provision). Statute 
of military tenures. See military. Statute of mo- 
nopolies. Same as Monopoly Act (which see, under mo- 
nopoly). Statute of Northampton, an English statute 
of 1328 (2 Edw. III.) relating to felonies, sheriffs, etc. 
Statute of Quia Emptores, an English statute of 1289. 
1290 (18 Edw. I.), which, because purchasers of land had 
tory provision or remedy; statutory fines. 
The first duty of the Muse is to be delightful, and It is 
an injury done to all of us when we are put In the wrong 
by a kind of statutory affirmation on the part of the critics 
of something to which our judgment will not consent, and 
from which our taste revolts. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 132. 
The reduction of the number of public-houses to a 
statutory minimum. 
Sir C. W. Dillre, Probs. of Greater Britain, vi. 6. 
On the first day of July, 1885, . . . the regular statutory 
duties were imposed. Harper's Mag. , LXXVI. 429. 
Statutory foreclosure. See foreclosure. Statutory 
guardian. See guardian. 2. Statutory law. Same as 
statute law (which see, under statute). 
Statuvolence (sta-tu'vo-lens), n. [< staturo- 
len(t) + -cc.] A peculiar state or condition 
into which a person may throw himself by the 
exercise of the will, independent of extraneous 
conditions ; a kind of self-induced clairvoyance. 
It is brought about by self-mesmerization, and closely re- 
sembles that hypnotic or somnambulic condition which 
may be produced by the will of another in suitable sub- 
jects. W. B. Fahnestock. [Recent] 
Statuvolent (sta-tu'vo-lent), a. [< L. status, 
a state or condition, 4- volen(t-)s, ppr. of velle, 
will.] Inducing statuvolence ; affected by sta- 
tuvolence, or being in that state. [Rare.] 
statuvolic (stat-u-vol'ik), a. [< staturol(ent) + 
-ic.] Pertaining in any way to statuvolence: as, 
the statuvolic state; a statuvolic process. [Rare.] 
