Sentence examples for Legal expressions from inspiring English sources

The story is told in "Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions" (Yale University Press, 2011), and on the New York etymology Web site the Big Apple.

From the headline-grabbing but mischievous to the bureaucratic but revolutionary, political, cultural, linguistic and even legal expressions of autonomy keep piling up: the islands of Scotland remain stubbornly different from the rest of the UK (and, for that matter, from the rest of Scotland).

During the trial, which is expected to last more than a month, prosecutors will attempt to prove that Stein, Wright and Allen intended to carry out the threats they made while under surveillance and that their actions were criminal, not legal, expressions of their First and Second Amendment rights.

There are so many legal expressions that consumers either don't know or simply misunderstand.

The fancy-sounding term is derived from a French legal expression, "cy pres comme possible," or "as near as possible".

The acts of 1919 and 1935 were comprehensive enactments, the former giving legal expression to the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms and the latter to the results of constitutional discussions in 1930 33.

But though the courts ought to take their cues from representatives of the people — and from popular political movements — judges still have important work to do in giving convincing legal expression to those sentiments.

Lawyers for Brewer argued with equal force that the legislation, scheduled to take effect July 29, is a legal expression of a sovereign state's right to secure its borders against a tide of illegal immigration.

If gay marriage is simply a basic natural right, of course — the formal legal expression of our right to love as we wish — it shouldn't be up for reconsideration under any circumstances.

The code made ecclesiastical affairs a matter of state jurisdiction; it gave legal expression to the practice of serfdom; and, in an important new article, it enumerated crimes "of word and deed" against the "Sovereign"—by which were to be understood the state and all its agents.

And in the event of independence, my Scottishness would gain legal expression.