ustawie

Ustawie is a form of the Polish noun ustawa, which means statute or law. It is not a separate concept or title; rather, it is a grammatical inflection of the word used in specific cases when referring to a statute in written Polish. The term appears primarily in legal and legislative texts.

In singular, the forms of ustawa decline as follows: nominative ustawa, genitive ustawy, dative ustawie, accusative ustawę, instrumental ustawą, locative ustawie. The vocative form is rarely used in modern prose. Because of this, ustawie often appears in sentences where the noun is in the locative or dative case, depending on the surrounding syntax.

Usage examples are typically found in formal texts. The locative form, ustawie, is common in phrases like "w ustawie," meaning "in the statute" or "in the act." The dative form ustawie can appear with verbs or constructions that require the dative case, though such occurrences are less frequent in everyday language. In standard legal writing, the more common reference to a statute is via the instrumental form ustawą (for example, "zgodnie z ustawą"), but the form ustawie also appears when the exact case is determined by the grammatical role of the noun in a sentence.

Overall, ustawie functions solely as a grammatical variant of ustawa, used to indicate grammatical cases rather than to convey a distinct legal concept.