Sentence examples for back to the statute from inspiring English sources

The point of Peter Baldwin's fascinating and learned (and also repetitive and disorganized) "The Copyright Wars" (Princeton) is that the dispute between analog-era and digital-era notions of copyright is simply the latest installment of an argument that goes all the way back to the Statute of Anne.

The principle of privity that nobody can sue on a contract to which they were not a party—has a pedigree of over three centuries, reaching back to the 1677 Statute of Frauds.

"The case law dates back to the 14th century and the statute law to the 13th century," he says.

Yet in states whose state legislatures have voted in recent years to abolish it, after long debate, there are no signs of it being brought back on to the statute books.With apologies for a long posting, my conclusion is this.

That is why his government invoked a statute dating back to the British raj in order to authorize the police to arrest protesters and prevent the march from forming.

As of September 2 , 1941 when the statute officially became copyrighted, Oscar winners were prohibited from selling their statute without first offering it back to the Academy for $10.00.

But the statute of limitations allows such corrections only back to the 2005 return.

The alleged crime dates back to 2010 and the statute of limitations expires in 2020.

As Geoffrey Robertson and Andrew Nicol explain in their excellent book, Media Law, England's defamation laws date back to a statute created in 1275.

The act dates back to a 1799 statute that has never been used to convict anyone, leaving officials unsure as to what would be needed to secure a conviction.

But after a surge of protest from outraged artists, Congress is expected in the next few weeks to pass legislation rolling back the statute to its original form, with language agreed on by the recording industry trade group and several groups representing artists.