Statutes At Large

Statutes in full or at length as originally enacted, in distinction from abridgments, compilations, and revisions. First used in one of the Elizabethan editions of the statutes; Ilbert, Legislative Methods 21. A volume of United States Statutes at Large is published for each congress, and is the official publication of the acts of congress. See Revised Statutes. If there is any variance between an act of congress, as found in the printed volume of statutes, and the original, as enrolled and deposited with the secretary of state, the latter will prevail; McLaughlin v. Menotti, 105 Cal. 572, 38 Pac. 973, 39 Pac. 207. STATUTI (Lat.). In Roman Law. Those advocates whose names were inscribed in the registers of matriculation, and formed a part of the college of advocates. The number of advocates of this class was limited. They were distinguished from the supernumeraries, from the time of Constantine to Justinian. See Calvinus, Lex.

Stafutes printed in full and in the order of their enactment, in a collected form, as distinguished from any digest, revision, abridgment, or compilation of them. Thus the volumes of "United States Stafutes at Large," contain ali the acts of congress in their order. The name is also given to an authentic collection of the various statutes which have been passed by i the British parliament from very early times to the present day. Statutes in derogation of common law must he strictly construed. Cooley, Const. LIm. 75, note; Arthurs, Appeal of, 1 Grant Cas. (Pa.) 57.

Defined under Statute in Black's Law Dictionary.