In 1998 the state passed a law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
If they vote down the amendment, a law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman will remain in place.
Four years ago, congress passed a law defining domestic violence, gender-based killings and other categories of hate crimes against women as "femicide".
At issue in the Terry Williams case was a different section of the 1996 law, defining the scope of federal court review of state court judgments.
That Britain lacked "a law defining its own people" was, for Powell in his 1968 speeches, the root of the problem.
Many were kidnapped while in the safety of their own homes, and are detained in the absence of any law defining their status and rights.
The Constitution also calls for Parliament to pass, within six months, a law defining the means by which provinces could form autonomous regions.
A limiting principle, in the form of 'settled doctrines of criminal law' defining those who 'are responsible for the commission of a misdemeanor,' was available.
Like all common law doctrines, the Delaware law defining the fiduciary duties of corporate directors has evolved, often rapidly, in the face of commercial change and experience.
PERHAPS the most controversial provision of Colombia's new law defining the victims of the country's internal armed conflict was its inclusion of people targeted by the government's own forces.
In the U.S. the Model Penal Code would allow a defense of mistake of law, but this would rarely include a mistake such as the existence or meaning of the law defining the crime itself.
