A legislative act or law.

An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction from common law. See Common law, under Common, a.

An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

Legislative enactment. A statute may be a single act of a legislature or a body of acts which are collected and arranged for a legislative session.