The phrase "adopted a statute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or legislative contexts when referring to the formal acceptance or enactment of a law or regulation.
Example: "The government adopted a statute to address environmental concerns and promote sustainability."
Alternatives: "enacted a law" or "passed a regulation".
In December, Vojvodina's provincial assembly adopted a statute giving the ethnically mixed region a new constitution.
Oklahoma recently adopted a statute requiring all of its companies to have staggered boards on the heels of a similar law in Indiana.
Across Connecticut, 37 cities and towns have adopted scenic road ordinances since the General Assembly adopted a statute in 1981 allowing municipalities to do so.
In each of the following four years, however, Congress adopted a statute that altered the application of the Adjustment Act for the officials of the three branches subject to it.
Paragraph (1) shall apply in a State except to the extent that such State adopts or has adopted by statute a formal procedure for the development of a contract clause described in paragraph (1) or adopts or has adopted a statute which does not permit inclusion of such a contract clause.
California is the latest state to adopt a statute permitting what is called flexible-purpose corporations, new companies that are part social benefit and part low-profit entities.
This Article argues that the most promising approach would be for Congress to adopt a statute tying class certification of securities claims to proof of a material misstatement, omission, or misleading half-truth.
Adopting a statute along the lines of the parliamentary commission's recommendation might have some modest deterrent effect on financial executives, who could fear that they might be made an example by prosecutors seeking to hold someone accountable for a bank's failure.
As part of their response, the E.U. adopted a blocking statute that forbade E.U. firms from complying with U.S. sanctions.
So it's not surprising that the E.U. also adopted a blocking statute in August, requiring E.U. companies not to comply with U.S. secondary sanctions.
388, Congress adopted a specific statute authorizing the division of the Great Reservation of the Sioux Nation into separate reservations and the allotment of specific tracts of reservation land to individual Indians, conditioned on the consent of three-fourths of the adult male Sioux.
