Sentence examples for invoke the statute from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kaminsky said that courts have applied this law to co-op apartments because proprietary leases create the requisite landlord-tenant relationship to invoke the statute.

(Thus, an agreement not to invoke the statute of limitations is binding, but an agreement not to plead that a certain contract constitutes an illegal restraint of trade is not).

The consensus seemed to be that it was OK to invoke the statute a little abstractly, if doing so helped to illuminate broader questions of authenticity, authorship and influence.

In its brief, the company says it has rights to the documents because according to the law, "any interested person," not just a litigant, may invoke the statute.

For its first few decades, prosecutors rarely invoked the statute.

Asked about potential challenges to the city's action to limit its liability, Mr. Cardozo said, "All the facts are not in, but we believe we are invoking the statute properly".

They have tried aggressively to limit exposure to claims by setting up parishes as individual corporations, invoked the statute of limitations, subjected plaintiffs to days of grueling depositions and settled claims in secret.

But if that did not happen, Republican lawmakers said today that they could invoke the federal statute.

After all, it was only last month that James Murdoch chose to invoke the 1710 Statute of Anne – the first piece of copyright legislation in the world – as he criticised the British Library for trying to digitise the newspapers held in its vast collection in Colindale, north London.

"If permitted to stand," wrote Neal K. Katyal, the acting solicitor general, "the decision below would seriously limit the circumstances in which prosecutors could invoke the material witness statute without fear of personal liability".

Because parents are "parties" representing their own interests, the lawyers said, they are entitled to invoke the separate federal statute, part of the Judiciary Act, that provides that "in all courts of the United States, the parties may plead and conduct their own cases personally or by counsel".