What is "statute books"

Usage examples of "statute books".

I ain't sure what Brown County has on its statute books on cohabitation, and you just made me promise never to tell.

We merely cheat ourselves into thinking that our liberty is something different from French liberty because we have a lot of laws upon our statute books that are there only to be disregarded and would have to be repealed instantly if enforced.

The decision of where to strike the balance has already been made and enacted in law - written by the legislature, signed by the governor, put on the Florida statute books.

Few people at the North knew or cared anything about the details of a law that had been on the statute books since 1793.

The law that condemned a traitor to be hanged, drawn, and quartered was still on the statute books, and the last two processes were not performed on a dead body.

Meanwhile, you have a certain procedure to take that's down in black and white in the statute books.

It is admitted in the fact that southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or write.