Sentence examples for from statute from inspiring English sources

The government, as sovereign, might have the right to amend or terminate existing contracts apart from statute.

This was the law of criminal libel apart from statute in most cases, if not in all.

11 They claim a standing by asserting that they have particular rights under and even apart from statute to bid and negotiate for Government contracts free from compliance with the determination made by the Secretary of Labor for their industry.

I stand to be corrected by more knowledgeable Guardian readers, but as far as I can see the police's power to close roads in the type of situation flamesnm describes doesn't derive from statute but is a function of the police's common law duty to protect life and property.

Whether it be said that such an interest justifies the cutting down by statute, without compensation, in the exercise of the police power, of what otherwise would be private rights of property, or that, apart from statute, those rights do not go to the height of what the defendant seeks to do, the result is the same.

The proposal would remove the Federal charter from statute and fully privatize the GSEs.

It all comes down from statutes".

International treaties are interpreted differently from statutes.

The law generally excludes programmers from statutes giving employers some flexibility to use independent contractors.

If we turn our attention from statutes to regulations, that value becomes even more obvious.

51 State of New York: excerpts from statutes relating to P&S, 1860, 1873.