Sentence examples for body of statute from inspiring English sources

England has a body of statute law dating back to the 13th century.

Bob Ward, the policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment said that the Paris agreement was always intended as a complement to emissions pledges, rather than a body of statute.

On the other end of the spectrum, there is a smaller body of statutes not given to rational explanation".

In 1570 Elizabeth I gave the university a revised body of statutes, and in 1571 the university was formally incorporated by act of Parliament.

has been held to be an issue of law for the court rather than for the jury, to be determined by reference to the body of statutes, rules, principles, and precedents which make up the law". 57A Am.Jur.2d Negligence 86, at 142 (2d. ed. 1989) (footnote omitted).

One might suppose that the newspaper editors breathed out with relief when Leveson, from the ruins of self-regulation, came up with a form of regulatory body independent of statute.

They may fail, and still the great body of the statute have operative force, and the force contemplated by the legislature in its enactment.

There is, however, a vast body of corporate statutes and case law that protects shareholders.

And an overwhelming body of laws, statutes and ordinances that render the average American a criminal, no matter how law-abiding they might think themselves.

We recognize that the part of the statute we have quoted does not stand by itself as the law of Utah but is part of the whole body of common and statute law of that State and is to be judged in that context.

"Comprised of" appears 1,880 times in the United States Code (the main body of American federal statutes).