Sentence examples for on the statute from inspiring English sources

The prime minister's spokesman said the legislation was due to be one of the early bills on the statute book.

Gay marriage is on the statute books.

My father had put that law on the statute book.

The offence was already on the statute book.

"Now this sort of language is on the statute books.

Five-year fixed parliamentary terms may remain on the statute book.

Public execution is on the statute book but rarely carried out.

Although the death penalty is on the statute books almost everywhere, it is rarely used.

Extensions on the statute of limitations also made prosecutions possible this time.

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s.

Yet though capital punishment remains on the statute books, it has long been suspended.