Statute

1. a. An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; — called also statute fair.
2. n. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; — used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
3. a. An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.