Sentence examples for Legal idea from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — A bizarre but seemingly legal idea to get around the country's debt ceiling using a trillion-dollar coin is having its day in Washington.

Covenant, however, as Milsom has said, represents "an elementary legal idea... familiar to the modem mind". To the medieval lawyer the word covenant (Latin, conventio) meant agreement.

But why is Bercow harking to a legal idea from the era of Shakespeare (fun fact: 1604 featured the first known performance of "Othello") in a decision that could lead Britain to a potentially disastrous "no deal" Brexit?

This is not a legal idea; it's a nice idea.

That clause in the Act, the judges have ruled, is a very problematic legal idea and contravenes older, grander principles of public law.

According to François Ewald (1993) we can distinguish three different paradigms of responsibility, corresponding to three different historical turns of the concept of responsibility, namely: 1. the paradigm of fault, corresponding to the traditional moral and legal idea of responsibility as linked to a faulty causation by the agent.

Founded in 1982, the society is a forum for discussion of conservative legal ideas.

His company was not prosecuted.New economic and legal ideas took hold at the end of the 19th century.

What it realized after the disappointments of the nineteen-seventies was that having conservative legal ideas alone wasn't enough.

In American law schools, the choice is not between teaching legal theory or practice; the task is to teach useful legal ideas and skills in more effective ways.

In an article carried in the party's main theoretical journal, Qiushi, Mr. Zhou wrote that some party members had been influenced by "erroneous Western political and legal ideas".