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stay-at-home (iou) and NEGATIVE STATUTE (law)


stay-at-home (iou)



stay-at-Home adjective & noun. E19.
[from STAY verb1 + AT + Home noun.]
A. adjective. Remaining habitually at Home, not given to going out or travelling abroad; untravelled; spec. avoiding going abroad on military service. E19.
b. noun.
A stay-at-Home person. M19.
An instance of staying at Home; spec. a strike. M20.

NEGATIVE STATUTE (law)


NEGATIVE STATUTE. One which is enacted in negative terms, and which so controls the common law, that it has no force in opposition to the statute. controls the common law, that it has no force in opposition to the statute. Bro. Parl. pl. 72; Bac. Ab. Statutes, G. Bro. Parl. pl. 72; Bac. Ab. Statutes, G.