Sentence examples for general rules of law from inspiring English sources

It does this because of some preconceived notion of the inapplicability of general rules of law to the President.

See Mattox v. United States, 156 U.S. at 243 ("general rules of law of this kind, however beneficent in their operation and valuable to the accused, must occasionally give way to considerations of public policy and the necessities of the case").

However, the question remains: can this smart grid design come into existence under the existing general rules of law?

The unit of analysis was the decision-making process (action situation) under existing general rules of law on the Bothoven-Noord smart grid project.

The analysis revealed that while two rules-in-use (information and scope rules) are aligned with all other IAD rules for the P2P, position, boundary, choice, aggregation and payoff rules are partially conflicting with each other under the existing general rules of law.

Many difficult questions occurred in the application to practice of the general rules of law as to aqua pluvia; and, among others, this question, — What things done by the owners of the land were to be considered as preventing or altering the natural flow of the waters?

'The general rule of law certainly is that justices of the peace ought not to execute their office in their own case (citing 1 Salk.

As Louis Brandeis explained in 1918, "The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions — knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas — become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use".

It is, of course, a general rule of law that, in the absence of special authority so to do, the owners of a majority of the stock of a corporation have not the power to authorize the directors to sell all of the property of the company and thereby abandon the enterprise for which it was organized.

We cannot release criminals from jail merely because we think one case is a particularly appropriate one in which to apply what reads like a general rule of law or in order to avoid making new legal norms through promulgation of dicta.

If, as the result of merely a general rule of law against the extraterritorial operation of statutory penalties, this court looked beyond the judgment sued on by a state to the cause of action merged in the judgment, and refused relief, the court now must have the power to look into the present cause of action and the origin of the rights asserted by the state of South Dakota.