'Statute law' is the law (statutes) that has been issued by a process of parliamentary debate and royal

consent.

'Case law' is the body of law that has been established by the higher courts. If a high-ranking court
decides that a principle of law exists, then all lower courts must treat that principle as law.

Law: general

Act: referring to a specific one

A statute is a written law passed by a legislature on the state or federal level.

Though the two are sometimes used interchangeably, there is a subtle difference.

An act is a legislative proclamation modifying the existing body of law, while statute is the law itself.

An act may create law, for example, by writing an entirely new law. In this case, the bulk of the text
of the act passed by the legislature (usually minus some introductory material) passes into law
directly, becoming statute.

The act may also modify an existing statute by amendment. For example "In Article 2 section 1
paragraph 7 of <whatever>, the word 'prohibited' and all following words through the end of the
paragraph shall be stricken and replaced with the word 'permitted'." In this case, all the technicalities
of how the law is amended are matters of the act, and the result of their action is the new body of
statute law.