Sentence examples for law principle from inspiring English sources

Statute trumps any common law principle anyway".

It gives meaning to the equality before law principle.

It did not go to bat on behalf of a fundamental common law principle.

The UK supreme court in Horncastle lost sight of a fundamental common law principle.

"In doing so, it has upended a longstanding English common law principle that such general warrants are unlawful.

Revlon duties, a Delaware law principle, require a company that has decided to sell itself to accept the highest price reasonably available.

Until 1992, Britain had a common-law principle that assumed the marriage contract implied consent.

All the Administration needs to do is to rely on the ancient common-law principle called the "rule of lenity".

President Obama has also followed Mr. Bush in zealously applying the state secrets doctrine, a common-law principle intended to enable the government to protect national security information from disclosure in litigation.

Mr. Kwartler, however, said that even if the courtyard was on a separate lot, construction there might constitute "a deprivation of service".He said: "There's a common-law principle called a continuing expectation.

Yet the common-law principle of "breach of confidence" is ancient, and Parliament debated the act that enshrines in British law the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, including both "respect for private and family life" and free speech.