The phrase "a statement of law" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a declaration or assertion regarding legal principles or rules.
Example: "The judge issued a statement of law that clarified the legal standards applicable to the case."
Alternatives: "legal declaration" or "legal assertion".
In the face of opposition from parts of her law enforcement constituency within the Justice Department, she put the department on the side of an indicted bank robber in arguing that Miranda was a statement of constitutional law and that the 1968 statute, known as Section 3501, was not a valid exercise of Congressional authority.
J.L. Austin once suggested that "a statement of 'the law'" is a performative statement, rather than "a statement of fact" (Austin 1962, 4 n.2).
"Normally a court opinion provides justification for a statement of the law," Mr. Banner writes, "but Blackmun's opinion did the opposite: it provided reasons for doubt".
Since that time, physicists have analyzed and revised their equations in a vain attempt to arrive at a statement of natural laws that in no way depends on the circumstances of the observer.
Since that time, physicists have revised their equations in a vain attempt to arrive at a statement of natural laws that doesn't depend on the circumstances of the observer.
Further, Mill could accept the importance of hypotheses as working assumptions—"heuristic devices," in Whewell's terms—, but he could not accept Whewell's claim that the mere fact that an hypothesis accounts for the data provides safe grounds for accepting it as a true statement of law.
In England, this was not the case; the Arbitration Act 1950, in Section 22(1), allowed the courts to instruct an arbitrator to "correct" his decision, if it had an incorrect statement of law immediately obvious.
It may be regarded as a special case of one of the most fundamental of physical laws, the principle of increase of entropy, which is a statement of the second law of thermodynamics in the form of an extremal principle the equilibrium state of an isolated physical system is that in which the entropy takes the maximum possible value.
Hence the logical form of a statement of a simple law is not 'All Fs are Gs'; in the case of a law involving two first-order properties, it is a second-order atomic sentence of the form 'N F,G)' (see, e.g., Armstrong 1978a; 1983; Dretske 1977; Tooley 1977).
So the Chinese theory of "Internet sovereignty," if poorly named, is a statement of private international law as typically practiced.
