Sentence examples for basic statute from inspiring English sources

Edward's civil legislation, which amended the unwritten common law, remained for centuries as the basic statute law.

LONDON — When the Buenos Aires team San Lorenzo de Almagro played and won a Primera Division match at Colón over the weekend, it knowingly breached a basic statute of FIFA law.

A question in this case, Riegel v. Medtronic Inc., No. 06-179, is whether the court will give the government's position the usual deference it accords an agency's interpretation of its basic statute.

Q. Would you advocate repeal of the Antiquities Act or some changes in that basic statute? A. The Antiquities Act is something that has been very useful in the past.

The bills would make the biggest changes in federal regulation of campaign finance since the basic statutes enacted in 1974 in response to the Watergate scandals.

IN the mid-1980s, when I was in college, what concerned and frustrated my peers and me was how few states had basic statutes forbidding discrimination against gay men and lesbians: laws that merely prevented someone from being denied a job or apartment on the basis of whom he or she loved.

With Congress unable to overhaul the basic Medicaid statute, Ms. Rosenbaum said, federal officials have good reason to waive selected provisions of the law "so states can reach more people with better-quality health care".

The basic federal statute governing presidential elections, contained in Title 3 of the United States Code, provides that when "any controversy or contest" arises concerning the appointment of electors, a state's own "judicial or other methods or procedures" for resolving the dispute "shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes".

In California, for example, the basic tax statute of limitations is four years.

She is tough, she believes deeply in the country's basic environmental statutes.

As a young attorney she was hired by Mr. Watt for a staff position at the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a sort of right-wing answer to the Sierra Club that favors traditional Western economic interests like ranching, mining and forestry, and has litigated vigorously against the Endangered Species Act and other basic federal statutes that the Interior Department is sworn to uphold.