Sentence examples for law precedents from inspiring English sources

The Federalists were drawing on English common law precedents, which provided for the prosecution of speech that could destabilize the government.

The jostling gave new significance to research under way by both parties and Congressional historians over the law, precedents and ambiguities concerning Congress's role in a disputed presidential election.

It also cites a remarkable ruling by Britain's law lords in 1904 vindicating a tiny bunch of Protestant diehards in a property row, on the ground that predestination was indeed an immovable part of their church's doctrine.Under the English-speaking world's common law, precedents, sometimes going back to medieval England, always play a role.

The legislation, introduced in the House of Lords, has provoked deep anxiety among civil liberties groups, senior lawyers and politicians who fear it is the thin end of a wedge, overturning long-established, common law precedents about fair and open justice.

Back to the top The legislation, introduced in the House of Lords, has provoked deep anxiety among civil liberties groups, senior lawyers and politicians who fear it is the thin end of a wedge, overturning long-established, common law precedents about fair and open justice.

Coming on the heels of John McCain's rant against so-called "activist judges," the decision provides a refreshing example of a Republican-dominated state court transcending ideology and political pressures to render a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense.

It has no equivalent of the robust Constitutional and tort law precedent defining the boundaries between speech and privacy rights.

Such a bill could not abolish rights found in the European convention (and common law precedent already protects family life and privacy).Yet British judges are becoming more assertive in the face of Strasbourg activism.

This iBrief will first examine Grotius's Mare Liberum to determine whether international law precedent indeed bars the private appropriation of a common heritage.

Centuries of common law precedent as well as the "due process" clause of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment make the Edwards indictment disturbing to those who believe in the rule of law.

The court even acknowledged that this unraveled hundreds of years of common law precedent.