Sentence examples for early statutes from inspiring English sources

These early statutes also conflated blasphemy with forms of sexual immorality.

A petition is the oldest form of Parliamentary proceeding, and the one through which most early statutes were originally passed; the King would be petitioned to take action by Members of Parliament, and would assent to their request; laws passed in this way include Magna Carta and the Statute of Westminster.

Code, South Carolina 1932, § 7197, and earlier statutes there cited.

While the Patriot Act loosened restrictions on the use of the letters, most of U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero's ruling focused on earlier statutes governing the letters.

It considered testimony that from 1893 to 1896 the assessments were equalized at 70percentnt, following earlier statutes, notwithstanding the Constitution of 1891.

For one thing, the statute phases out the "manufacturing clause," a clause that appeared in earlier statutes and had limited importation of many copies (of copyrighted works) printed outside the United States.

On December 17th, the Netherlands approved a law that will allow transgender people to change their gender on identity papers without undergoing sex-reassignment surgery, amending an earlier statute that did not grant individuals the autonomy to define their own gender identity.

Whatever may be the normal significance of a later congressional indication of the meaning of an earlier statute, see, e.g., Glidden Co. v. Zdanok, 370 U.S. 530, 541, 82 S.Ct.

The burden does not rest on him to test again the validity of the amendment by some procedure to compel his competitors to pay the tax under the earlier statute.

The use of foreign currency in domestic transactions was banned by an earlier statute.Mr Chikwanda says the goal is to know precisely how much money is flowing in and out of Zambia, so he can verify that the right amount of tax is being paid.

The government had argued that the earlier statute had more force than the later one (it is usually the other way around) and that, somehow, the executive order was not exactly about visas, per se, but just about keeping people out of the country.