They relied in part on the fact that Jeffers, who had argued in the District Court that the two statutes involved distinct offenses, had "never affirmatively argued that the difference in the two statutes was so great as to authorize separate punishments..
Patterson, writing separately, does note the differences between the Licensing Act and the Statute of Anne; the question of censorship was, by 1710, out of the question, and in that regard the Statute is distinct, not providing for censorship.
"Plunder" and "electoral sabotage" are distinct offenses under Philippine criminal statutes which require different venues and courts.
When, as in this case, a freelance author has contributed an article to a "collective work" such as a newspaper or magazine, see § 101 (defining "collective work"), the statute recognizes two distinct copyrighted works: "Copyright in each separate contribution to a collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole..
The statute identifies three distinct elements and requires each to be met for a work to qualify as a copyrightable compilation: (1) the collection and assembly of pre-existing material, facts, or data; (2) the selection, coordination, or arrangement of those materials; and (3) the creation, by virtue of the particular selection, coordination, or arrangement, of an "original" work of authorship.
Loosely tied together in this "Disclosures to Consumers, Voters, Investors" Initiative Statute are five distinct issues.
The biggest legal problem with this omnibus measure is that it seeks to address too many distinct concerns with a single statute.
We are compelled to note preliminarily that the attack on the Illinois bail statutes, in a very distinct sense, is paradoxical.
While a fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford (1955-73), he became recognised as a leading historian of common law – the body of law derived from the decisions and practice of the courts, as distinct from the laws imposed by statute.
Ideally, we will dispense with distinct ecclesiastical faiths, along with their revealed texts and doctrinal statutes and observances, in favor of a universal, pure religion of reason, dedicated to morality.
