Statute-book

It may surprise our readers to know that the punishment of the pillory remained on the Statute-book of this country until the year 1837, though it had practically fallen into disuse for many years before it was repealed.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Statute-book of South Carolina thus it is written: [1] "Slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, construction and purposes whatever."

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

The Bright clauses (1869) had introduced the principle into the Statute-book, and Lord Ashbourne's

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

Scottish reformation in its purest form was deliberately abandoned in the Revolution Settlement -- Both the Church and State concurred in leaving unrepealed on the Statute-book, the infamous Act Rescissory, by which the National Covenants were declared to be unlawful oaths, and all laws and constitutions, ecclesiastical or civil, were annulled, which approved and gave effect to them.

The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony Thomas Houston

Statute-book of South Carolina thus it is written: [1] "Slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, construction and purposes whatever."

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Government of measures and of men; but no measure of that Government could equal in importance the Old-Age Pensions Act which we have placed on the Statute-book.

Liberalism and the Social Problem Winston S. Churchill 1919

“The man who insisted on the Statute-book being the text of English history showed that he had never heard of peine forte et dure, and had no clear notion of a Bill of Attainder.”

The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

Statute-book, those who professed the Presbyterian Faith were free to use it without molestation.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

Statute-book [26] imposed death by burning as the penalty for denying the doctrine of Transubstantiation, and hanging as a common felon for disapproval of Communion in one kind, or of the perpetual obligation of vows of chastity, or of the necessity of auricular confession, we can easily understand that the Revisionists felt themselves clogged and hampered at every step.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

University Act on the Statute-book, thus solving a problem that had baffled his predecessors since the Union, he might have sung his _Nunc

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 Various 1898