statute book
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Amnesty also highlighted figures for the US, the only Western developed country where capital punishment is still on the statute book.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
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
"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
Look at our statute book, and if we are to judge from that, of the utter detestation with which our people look upon immorality of every kind, we deserve to be considered paragons of propriety.
From Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries by William Hogan
