HOW TO PRONOUNCE
statutory
/ˈstætʃəˌtɔɹi/
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“The document lists the statutory requirements.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does statutory mean?
adjective
- Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈstætʃəˌtɔɹi/
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It shall also investigate all lines of law enforcement, instructing the Federation in statutory law.
The Act that institutes the Statutory Duel was passed a hundred years ago, and as it has never been revived, it expires to-morrow.
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All these different statutory regulations seem to have been made with great propriety.
By old English statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.”
Perhaps half those who are convicted of crimes are as capable of reformation as half those transgressors who are not convicted, or who keep inside the statutory law.