See that title.—Expository statute. See that title.—Genvrat statute. A statute relating to the whole community, or concerning all persons generally, as distinguished from a pret or special statute. 1 Bl. Comm. 85, 86; 4 Coke, 75c.—Local stat~ ute. Such a statute as has for its object the interest of some particular locality, as the formation of a road, the alteration of the course ° of a river, the formation of a public market in a particular district, etc—Negative statute. A statute expressed in negative terms; a statute which prohibits a thing from being done, or declares what shall not be done.—Penal statute. See PENAL.—Perpetual statute. One which is to remain in force without limitation as to time; one which contains no provision for its repeal, abrogation, or expiration at any future time.—Personal statutes. In foreign and modern civil law. ‘Those statutes which have principally for their object the person. and treat of property only incidentally. Story, Confl. Laws, § 13. A personal statute, in this sense of the term, is a law, ordinance, regulation, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity, which he does not change with every change of abode, but which, upon principles of ustice and policy, he is assumed to carry with im wherever he goes. 2 Kent, Comm. 456. The term is also applied to statutes which, instead of being general, are confined in their operation to one person or group of persons. Bank of Columbia v. Walker, 14 Lea (Tenn. 308: Saul v. Creditors, 5 Mart. N. 8. (La. 591, 16 Am. Dec. 212.—Private statute. A statute which operates only upon particular persons, and private concerns. 1 Bl. Comm. 86.