The Statute Book is "the surviving body of
enacted legislation published by authority" in "a number of publications".
In England at the end of 1948, the Statute Book printed by authority consisted of the twenty-four volumes of ''The Statutes: Second Revised Edition'' and the thirty-three volumes of
Public General Act
In the United Kingdom an act of Parliament is primary legislation passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
An act of Parliament can be enforced in all four of the UK constituent countries ( England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ir ...
s published annually since 1920, making in all fifty-seven volumes.
In ''
A First Book of English Law'',
Owen Hood Phillips said that there is no Statute Book.
John Baker John Baker or Jon Baker may refer to:
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*John Baker (American Revolutionary War) (1731–1787), American Revolutionary War hero, for whom Baker County, Georgia was named
*John Baker (RAF officer) (1897–1978), British air marshal
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said that "the statute book" was no closer to being a historical entity than "the"
register of writs
Register or registration may refer to:
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* Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc.
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was.
In autumn 1947, the
Statute Law Committee was given terms of reference "to consider the steps necessary to bring the Statute Book up to date by
consolidation
Consolidation may refer to:
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* Consolidation (computing), the act of linkage editing in computing
* Memory consolidation, the process in the brain by which recent memories are crystallised into long-term memory
* Pulmon ...
,
revision
Revision is the process of revising.
More specifically, it may refer to:
* Patch (computing), Update, a modification of software or a database
* Revision control, the management of changes to sets of computer files
* ''ReVisions'', a 2004 antholo ...
, and otherwise".
[The Statutes Revised. Third Edition. HMSO. 1950. Volume I. Page x.]
References
Statutory law
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