Negative Statute
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One which is enacted in negative terms, and which so controls the common law that it has no force in opposition to the statute. Bac. Abr. "Statutes" (G); Brooke, Abr. "Parliament," pi.
72.