Sentence examples for french statute from inspiring English sources

For another, the French statute of limitation for murder is just ten years.

A French statute passed in 1351 tried much the same thing.

But if there is no film industry, there is at least a Law of Cinematography (modeled on a French statute) that establishes a mechanism by which the state helps finance movie production.

The caption: "Don't mess with my statute," in a play on words, on the French statute and statue.

Under French law, the statute of limitations for attempted rape is 10 years, but three years for sexual assault.

One statute makes French the "normal and everyday language of work, instruction, communication, commerce and business".

It's an ancient statute that, the French maintain, bars succession to the French throne to anyone whose title (like Henry's) was passed down through a female ancestor.

This Alliance will have the statutes of a French association loi 1901.

He took pains to have the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom translated into French and circulated widely in Europe.

"Nothing in the Constitution or the party statutes or the practices of the French Republic prevents a party leader from being in the government," said Brice Hortefeux, a deputy in the European Parliament and perhaps Mr. Sarkozy's closest political adviser.

The first Statute of Westminster (1275), written in Old French, was issued at Edward's first "general" parliament, to which representatives of the commons had been summoned; the other two statutes were promulgated in parliaments attended only by the great lords and councillors.