c. 1, which enacted that all persons being seised in fee-simple (except femes covert, infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane mernory might, by will and testament in writing, devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two-thirds of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 375.—Statute roll. <A roll upon which an English statute, after receiving the royal assent, was formerly entered.—Statute staple. See STaPLe.—Statutes at large. Statutes printed in full and in the order of their enactment, in a collected form, as distinguished from any digest, revision, abridgment, or compilation of them. ‘Thus the volumes of “United States Statutes at Large,” contain all the acts of congress in their order. The name is also given to an authentic collection of the various statutes which have been passed by the British parliament from very early times to the present day.