A number of Italian companies, including Campari, a drinks-maker, have changed their statutes to give extra votes to long-term investors.Similar changes may sweep across Europe.
In R v A, extra provisions were read into a statute to ensure compliance, since the statute itself had the legitimate aim of protecting potential rape victims; it was merely, in the words of Lord Steyn, that "the methods adopted amounted to legislative overkill".
Jacobs and Potter survey and dismantle the state and Federal statutes that attempt to add extra penalties to crimes motivated by disapproved hatreds.
The Peninsular War resulted in so many deserving candidates for the Bath that a statute was issued allowing the appointment of Extra Knights in time of war, who were to be additional to the numerical limits imposed by the statutes, and whose number was not subject to any restrictions.
The European Commission will start reactivating a so-called blocking statute against extra-territorial sanctions after members states gave it the "green light to be ready to act whenever European interests are affected".
But Congress made convincing findings that widespread violations by local governments of the First Amendment right of religious assembly required that extra pressure, he wrote, and so he held the statute constitutional.
That ruling struck down the state's hate-crime statute, under which a judge could add extra time to a sentence after finding that the crime was committed with a biased motive.
Compared with Britain's company law, for example, Delaware's statute does appear to offer American managers considerable extra powers.
Saddest of all, the prosecutors are asking the banks involved to please please please just ignore that whole statute-of-limitations thing and give them some extra time.
Congress is considering a "statute of racial equality" that would give quotas a big extra push.
