Sentence examples for an overt act from inspiring English sources

Specifically, the measure prohibits an "overt act" to "kill the partially delivered living fetus".

Mr Romer deplores what he calls "an overt act of deception".

For a conviction, there must be an overt act, testified to by two witnesses in open court.

The law defines that procedure as the partial delivery of a living fetus, and the performance of "an overt act" intended to kill it.

Legal experts question whether the measure, which prohibits an "overt act" to "kill the partially delivered living fetus," will hold up in court.

Alternatively, the state could have sought to prohibit all offers to assist in suicide when accompanied by an overt act to accomplish that goal.

Boland argued that Azari had only taken a phone call and not committed any "overt act" in furtherance of the alleged terrorism plot.

The law, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, enacted in November, makes it a crime for doctors to perform any "overt act" to "kill the partially delivered living fetus".

Mutiny, any overt act of defiance or attack upon military (including naval) authority by two or more persons subject to such authority.

For example, conspiracy may be prosecuted wherever the agreement occurred or wherever any overt act was committed.

But it could not produce two eyewitnesses to the same overt act, a legal requirement in proving treason.