Sentence examples for earliest law from inspiring English sources
The earliest law code (1016), called the "Russian Law," was one of the "Barbarian" law codes common throughout Germanic Europe.
The earliest law suits (legis actiones) were conducted orally in two stages: a preliminary one before the jurisdictional magistrate, in which the issue was developed; and then the actual presentation of evidence to the judex, or judge.
At that time it was also not known that Mesopotamia had led the way in the invention of writing and literature; in mathematics, science, astronomy and geometry; in the invention of the wheel; and in the earliest law codes.
The earliest law against female homosexuality appeared in France in 1270.
The edict repositories and the imperially sponsored juristic scholarship gave rise to the earliest law school system of the Western world, aimed specifically at training professional jurists.
The earliest law code to survive was the one established in the year 653, which was divided into 500 articles specifying different crimes and penalties ranging from ten blows with a light stick, one hundred blows with a heavy rod, exile, penal servitude, or execution.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed one of the earliest laws establishing minimum standards for refrigerators, air-conditioners and other appliances.
It differs from earlier codes, as well as from the earliest laws of Greece and Rome, with regard to the relative importance of laws concerning property and other economic matters.
Municipal rules and regulations generally govern through categories, such as 'use' and 'activity', that are somewhat removed from personhood" (Valverde, 2005), p. 37. 5Among the earliest laws in Italy covering the issue and substance of ordinances was Law no.
Well, one of the earliest laws we have are the Ten Commandments".
Wesselhoft went on to claim that because the Ten Commandments were "the earliest laws we have" and "at the Capitol, what we do is make laws," the Christian monument had historical significance.
