"application of a law" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means the implementation or use of a specific law or legal principle. Example: The judge carefully considered the application of the law in this case before making her decision.
The Bush administration also entered the appeal on the railroad's behalf because the case involves the application of a law, the Federal Employers Liabilityy Act, that governs railroad workers' rights.
A Bronx man who assaulted an emergency medical technician with a knife was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life in prison in a rare application of a law aimed at career criminals.
This book's main contribution is the systematic application of a law and economics analysis to the design of a liability regime for a new technology carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The appeals court was told to take another look at the case in light of the Supreme Court's ruling last week that a certain diagnostic test was not eligible for patents because it was a simple application of a law of nature.
No provision of this title,1 except as provided in section 1083,1 shall be construed as modifying, limiting, or superseding the operation of any provision of an enumerated consumer law that relates to the application of a law in effect in any State with respect to such Federal law.
The sources thesis seems to be contradicted even in the clearest cases of the application of a law stated in descriptive language.
Purely "conventional or obvious" "[pre]-solution activity" is normally not sufficient to transform an unpatentable law of nature into a patent-eligible application of such a law.
But if there is a dispute over the meaning or application of a particular law or provision, it is up to the courts to make authoritative determination on what the law means.
Most were deprived of citizenship by the application of a 1982 law on nationality, and so are regarded as illegal immigrants.
Visiting Moscow last week, Condoleezza Rice, America's secretary of state, expressed concern about two of the Kremlin's methods: muzzling the media, and the haphazard application of a new law that regulates non-governmental organisations.
I cared about Troy Davis, about a man who was quite possibly the victim of an unjust application of an unjust law, ironically all in the name of justice.
