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Status of Gibraltar
Status of Gibraltar: British Overseas Territory ceded by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, claimed by Spain; since 15 July 2026 governed by a UK-EU treaty with a customs union, Schengen-style border rules, and a sovereignty-preserving Article 2.
Status of Jerusalem
Status of Jerusalem: contested sovereignty over Jerusalem under the 1947 UN corpus separatum plan, Israel's 1967 annexation of East Jerusalem, UN invalidation, the 2024 ICJ opinion, and embassy recognition disputes.
Status of the Irish language
Status of the Irish language (Gaeilge): first official language of Ireland and an official EU language since 2007. Census 2022 recorded 1,873,997 self-reported speakers but only 71,968 daily users outside education; protected status extended to Northern Ireland by the Identity and Language Act 2022.
Status Quo (band)
Status Quo (formerly the Spectres, Traffic Jam) is a British boogie-rock band formed in London in 1965 by Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster; 118+ million records sold, 33 studio albums, 50+ UK hit singles.
Status Quo (Jerusalem and Bethlehem)
The Status Quo is the customary regime freezing Christian communities' worship and possession rights in Jerusalem's and Bethlehem's holy places, fixed by an Ottoman firman of 1852.
Status quo ante bellum
Status quo ante bellum, also known as white peace, is a Latin phrase meaning "the state of things before the war," used for peace settlements restoring prewar conditions.
Status quo bias
Status quo bias, coined by Samuelson and Zeckhauser (1988), is the non-rational preference for keeping the current state or default option, explained by loss aversion, transition costs, and sunk costs, and documented in health plans, retirement saving, and organ donation.
Status Update
Status Update is a 2018 American teen comedy directed by Scott Speer, written by Jason Filardi, starring Ross Lynch as Kyle Moore, whose magical app U-niverse makes his social media posts come true; 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Status Update Music
status update music is the fifth album by leroy, Jane Remover's dariacore alias, surprise-released May 14, 2026 on Bandcamp and SoundCloud; 15 tracks, 66:38, over 150 samples, distinct from the Michigan duo of the same name.
Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System
Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System, publicly named Poseidon and given the NATO reporting name Kanyon, is a Russian intercontinental-range, nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed autonomous torpedo launched from special-purpose submarines and announced by Putin in 2018.
Statute
A statute is a law enacted by a legislative body, also called an act. In common law systems, statutes and judicial decisions are the two primary sources of law.
Statute mile
The statute mile is a unit of 5,280 feet established by an English Act of Parliament in 1593, still used for road distances in the UK and US.
Statute of Algeria (1947)
The Statute of Algeria (1947), Loi n° 47-1853, reorganized Algeria as French departments with an Algerian Assembly elected by two electoral colleges; it lasted until 1962.
Statute of Anne
Statute of Anne, also called the Copyright Act 1710 (8 Anne, c. 19), is the British Parliament's first copyright statute, effective 10 April 1710, granting 21-year terms for existing books and 14-year renewable terms for new works, and founding Anglo-American copyright law.
Statute of frauds
A statute of frauds is a law requiring specified kinds of agreements to be evidenced in writing before they can be enforced. The name derives from the English Statute of Frauds, enacted.
Statute of Kotor
The Statute of Kotor (Статут града Котора) is the medieval law code of Kotor, Montenegro, with provisions dating from 1301, printed in Venice in 1616.
Statute of Labourers 1351
Statute of Labourers 1351: English law passed at the first post-plague Parliament, freezing wages at pre-Black Death levels, compelling service, and restricting worker mobility; reinforced the 1349 Ordinance of Labourers and failed to hold wages down.
Statute of limitations
Statute of limitations: law barring claims after a set period after an injury; also called prescription in civil-law systems. Covers accrual, discovery rule, tolling, repose, and history from Roman law and the 1623 Act.
Statute of Piotrków
The Statute of Piotrków, also called the Privilege of Piotrków, was a set of laws granted to the Polish nobility by King Jan I Olbracht in 1496.
Statute of Public Schools
The Statute of Public Schools (Устав народным училищам) was the law approved by Catherine II in 1786 establishing a state system of public schools across the Russian Empire.
Statute of the Council of Europe
The Statute of the Council of Europe (ETS No. 1), signed in London 5 May 1949 by ten states, is the founding treaty of the Council of Europe, defining its aim, membership, organs, and amendment rules.
Statute of the International Court of Justice
The Statute of the International Court of Justice, annexed to the UN Charter and adopted at San Francisco in 1945, constitutes the ICJ: its organization, judge election, contentious and advisory jurisdiction, Article 38 sources of law, procedure, and amendment.
Statute of Vladimir Monomakh
The Statute of Vladimir Monomakh (Устав Владимира Мономаха) is legislation issued by Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev in 1113, limiting loan interest and regulating debt-bound peasants and slaves.
Statute of Westminster 1931
UK statute of 11 December 1931 (22 & 23 Geo. V c. 4) giving the six Dominions legislative autonomy: ending Colonial Laws Validity Act repugnancy, barring UK Acts without Dominion request and consent, and enacting the 1926 Balfour Declaration.
Statute of Wiślica
The Statute of Wiślica (Statut wiślicki) is a Latin law code for Lesser Poland issued by King Casimir III the Great, in force by 1362 at the latest.
Statute on Coinage (Qian lü)
The Statute on Coinage (钱律) was the monetary law of the early Western Han dynasty, known from the Ernian lüling bamboo slips excavated at Zhangjiashan in 1983 and abolished under Empress Lü.
Statute on Enhanced Security
The Statute on Enhanced Security (Положение об усиленной охране) was an emergency-powers law of the Russian Empire, approved by Alexander III in 1881 and kept in force until 1917.
Statute on Monks and Nuns (Sengni ling)
The Statute on Monks and Nuns (僧尼令) was a Tang dynasty law disciplining Buddhist clergy, known today chiefly through its Japanese counterpart, the 27-article Soni-ryō of 757.
Statute on the Succession of 1722
The Statute on the Succession of 1722 (Устав о наследии престола) was a decree of Peter I giving each Russian monarch the right to name a successor, in force until 1797.
Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year
The Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year (二年律令) is a set of early Western Han laws on 526 bamboo strips from a tomb in Hubei, dated to 186 BC.