Sentence examples for intangible rights from inspiring English sources

The second question is whether the federal anti-extortion law, the Hobbs Act, which makes it a crime to obtain "property from another" through the use of actual or threatened force, defines as property such intangible rights as the right of access to abortion services.

Since at least 1941, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, and prior to 1987, the courts had interpreted the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes as criminalizing not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.

"Europe has the intangible right now.

BEHIND THE NEWS The law made it a crime to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.

Mr. Warren and Mr. Brandeis wrote, for example, that privacy, an intangible right, was as important as more tangible common law rights, like the ownership of private property.

It makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services" and is often used to prosecute corporate executives and politicians.

In 2006 Georgia Thompson, a civil servant in Wisconsin, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for depriving the public of "the intangible right of honest services".

Passed in 1988, the law made it a federal crime, under the mail-fraud statute, "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services".

The court said the law, which makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services," was unconstitutionally vague.

Federal prosecutors have long had access to an analogous law that makes it illegal for officials to deprive their constituents of their "intangible right to honest services".

PAGE A18 SORTING OUT A VAGUE LAW The "honest services" law makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services".