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Statutory, -ie, Stateter, adj. [f. or f. as Statut(e n.¹] Laid down, enacted, appointed by statute. — 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i xix 12 (1678) 203.
Theft, when committed by landed men, is punished with us as treason, Act. 50. p. 11. F. 6. … a person who was once a barron, if he be thereafter denuded, falls not under it … if it be proved that he was actually denuded, that will liberat him from vitious intromission, much more a crime that deserves forfaulter, and statutory crimes are not to be extended 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i vi (1678) 37 (see Perduellio(u)n n.). 1683 Martine Reliq. Divi Andreae 105.
In the case of treasone, whether it be perduellion or statutorie treason … the justices are only judges 1694 Dunbar Social Life I 165.
The supplicatione of … your honors officers … we are geting nothing of our fies, nor of our stateter meals, nor so much as to buy shoues to our feet