Sentence examples for become settled practice for from inspiring English sources
Not until the accession of the German George I (1714), however, did it become settled practice for all the sovereign's descendants in the male line (that is, his children and the children of his sons) to be styled prince or princess and royal highness; great-grandchildren in the male line were prince or princess and highness.
Before the Hanoverian succession, before the use of "prince" became settled practice, royal sons were styled Lord Forename or the Lord Forename.
Before the Hanoverian succession, when the use of "princess" became settled practice, royal daughters were styled Lady Forename or the Lady Forename.
It is a set of institutions, the Commons the most important, that evolved into settled practice for a purpose: to promote the people's and the country's best interests.
That a corporation was a person had -- presto -- become settled law.
Once they have done that, and a legal analysis becomes "settled law" or policy — once you start deploying the drones, for example, and talking about how legal it is — that exemption is supposed to go away.
Since Luther v. Borden (1849), for example, it is a matter of settled practice that the court will not use Article IV, Section 4 which provides that the states must have a republican form of government to invalidate state laws; it is for Congress and the president to decide whether a particular state government is republican in form.
And such is the settled practice of that court.
Property, according to Bentham, is nothing but an expectation of protection created by the legislator and by settled practice.
The settled practice is that day-to-day meetings of the Council are attended by four privy counsellors, usually the Ministers responsible for the matters being approved.
