statute book
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Also expected to make the statute book is a bill overhauling property law in England and Wales, giving more rights to people who own leasehold properties, where the building’s freehold is owned by someone else.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
However, she said the bill was "a vital first step in getting these rights on the statute book".
From BBC ● May 19, 2023
"The UK government's Kept Animals Bill will change that - and the findings from Panorama highlighting issues at events like this demonstrates why we need that legislation on the statute book as soon as possible."
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2023
The main opposition Labour Party said it agreed it was a “reasonable” approach to take some measures off the statute book but that lawmakers would study the detail of the proposals.
From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2021
He pledged himself to maintain the Compromise measures, because he believed their continuance on the statute book will promote prosperity and happiness, while an interference with them will inevitably produce agitation, mischief, and misery.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
