Sentence examples for english statute from inspiring English sources

There is an English statute governing offences, and every year about 200 cases come up.

In 1401 the first English statute was passed for the burning of heretics.

Opponents worry that such a measure would bring into question any reference to English statute, for instance Blackstone's useful "Commentaries on the Law of England".

Prosecution of alleged witches, writes historian Edmund Morgan, had ceased in the colonies long before the English statute criminalizing witchcraft was repealed in 1736.

The protection derives from the English Statute of Anne (8 Anne c. 19, 1710), the first statute to recognize the rights of authors.

An English statute of 1529 held in effect that a servant who carried away goods entrusted to him by his master had committed larceny, since the legal title as opposed to the physical possession had never been transferred to him.

Our handsome manuscript compilation of English statutes dates from about 1335.

Blackstone's Commentaries, reprinted in America in 1771, was widely used, even though new English statutes and decisions were officially ignored.

In subsequent English statutes, the references to "the legal judgment of his peers" and "laws of the land" are treated as substantially synonymous with due process of law.

It was the rule at common law and under the English statutes that estates of remainder or reversion could not be divided by proceedings for compulsory partition.

Lindgren identifies early English statutes and cases to support his contention that official extortion did not require a coercive taking, nor did it under the early American statutes, including the later New York statute.