"act of law" is a correct and common phrase in written English.
It is typically used when discussing a specific law or piece of legislation. It can also refer to the process of creating or enacting a law. Example: The act of law requires all citizens to pay taxes on their income.
Just over 40 years ago the Sexual Offences bill received Royal Assent and became an act of law.
The state must organize itself so as to not perish and the Leviathan's success occurs when disobedience is solely an individual act of law violation.
Guy Inbar, an Israeli defence ministry official, says the dwellings that made up Makhul were illegally built and that their destruction was an act of law enforcement that came four years after demolition notices were first issued.
Mr. Chen, a close ally of Mr. Jiang, was eventually convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison, but his prosecution was widely seen as more of a political move than a simple act of law enforcement.
"It's an act of law that makes people do things," says former US Inspector General Earl Devaney, who was tasked by Obama to oversee Data.gov.
In 1916, a board of five Army generals on the retired list convened under act of law to review every Army Medal of Honor awarded.
We are very clearly asking government to take action, to meet its duties under English law and to comply with people's right to quality library services enshrined in three important acts of law".
"The Vietnamese government has … contained the acts of law infringement and [will] strictly punish violators in accordance with the law," the Vietnamese prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, said in a speech to an economic conference in Manila.
The aim of this work was to analyze the influence of the European and the Polish acts of law, the principals of The Polish, Physician's Code of Ethics, and the standards of The Accreditation Program for Hospitals on the forms and contents of the informed consent for oncological treatments given by the patients in The Great Poland Cancer Centre.
The failures due to the human behaviour like the absent-mindedness, willful and wanton acts of law breaking, infringement of traffic regulations, etc., cannot be removed simply.
During the last few decades, patients' rights have been reinforced in many countries by acts of law.
