Sentence examples for general law and from inspiring English sources

In addition to this Code, you must adhere to the general law and any other external regulations as required by the Group.

The court took the view that here was a special case not provided for or considered in an existing general law, and so upheld what had been done.

630, Judge Cooley said: 'But the act to regulate commerce is a general law, and contracts are always liable to be more or less affected by general laws, even when in no way referred to...

In any event, as indicated above, the characterization of the payment makes no difference for First Amendment purposes when the law being applied is a general law, and does not single out the press.

He distinguished two ways of solving a mathematical problem (and two corresponding types of mathematicians): an "investigation based on numbers," an inductive approach that involves scrutinizing and manipulating data until one finds a general law; and an "investigation based on principle," a reasoned approach that involves directly utilizing rules and procedures, as in algebra.

The legislature meant, and only meant, to select certain provisions from the public local law in relation to the inspection of tobacco, and to re-enact these in a public general law, and to leave such portion of the local law which it did not thus re-enact, and did not modify or repeal by inconsistent provisions, as existing parts of the local law.

Hempel's essay provoked a prolonged controversy between supporters who cited generalizations about human behavior as the relevant general laws, and critics who argued that historical explanations are more akin to explanations of individual behavior, based on interpretation that makes the outcome comprehensible.

Corporations may be formed under general laws; and all such laws may, from time to time, be altered or repealed.' Article 5, § 48.

This involved the implicit assumptions that nature was simple (i.e., governed by a few general laws) and that similar effects had similar causes.

One group of sciences works by way of positing general laws and understanding its objects as examples of such general laws (nomo-thetic).

(R2) The explanans must contain general laws, and these must actually be required for the derivation of the explanandum.