In general terms, by statute we understand that set of laws that are drawn up and made public in a society to be respected and taken into account by all citizens of the region to which reference is made. However, going to greater specificities, we can say that the statute is a lesser form of laws since it is generally drawn up within the framework of a specific region, city or area, as well as the set of laws that govern an institution or entity in a particular way. The statute, therefore, can be found in most cases subject to a set of major laws such as the national constitution of each country.
The statute is basically organized to legislate on specific issues or for certain institutions, not being valid outside of them. An example of such a situation may be a statute that works within the metalworkers' union but does not apply to all unions in a region. At the same time, a statute can be a set of laws that applies to all citizens of a specific locality, for example in the city of Buenos Aires but not in the city of Córdoba.
Thus, each local or specific statute seeks to propose legislation on particular and characteristic aspects of the region or entity in question in order to favor the resolution of conflicts (or directly avoid them) in a more concrete and clear way, a situation that does not always happen with large compendia of general laws for an entire nation.
The statutes can be more or less rigid depending on the space in which it is applied. At the same time, there are statutes that are not official but do serve informally to give some order to the activities of an entity or institution.
