Statutum

Lat.

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 de mercatoribus. The statute of Acton Burnell, (q. v.)

— Statutum Hiberniae de cohæredibus. 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 Ireland1, directing them how to proceed in a certain point where they entertained a doubt. It seems ths 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, eta 5 Eliz. c. 4.

— Statutum Walliæ. The stafute of Wales. The title of a statute passed in the twelfth year of Edw. I., being a sort of constitution for the principality of Wnies, 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.