Sentence examples similar to corpus of legislation from inspiring English sources

But the corpus of yesterday's legislation programme is contradictory.

He went on: "The only change – and it will not come in any great rush – is that the UK will extricate itself from the EU's extraordinary and opaque system of legislation: the vast and growing corpus of law enacted by a European Court of Justice from which there can be no appeal.

The Five Knights case led to the 1628 Petition of Right, which turned habeas corpus from a privilege to a right and then, in 1641, Parliament passed the Habeas Corpus Act, whose power was expanded in 1679 in a piece of legislation that William Blackstone called a "second Magna Carta".

Similarly, Democrats voted in large numbers for the passage of the 2006 Military Commissions Act, a radical piece of legislation which stripped Americans of their right to habeas corpus - the right to petition a court to be released from imprisonment pending trial.

The Constitutional Tribunal provides judicial review of legislation.

It was a useless piece of legislation.

The odds of legislation passing remain unclear.

This is a historic piece of legislation".

He focuses on the tracking of legislation.

It's not a piece of legislation".

There was talk of legislation.