Sentence examples for law prior from inspiring English sources

Killing a wife for infidelity was "classic" provocation under the law prior to 2009.

Asked if this meant the association would ask Suffolk to rescind Mr. Foley's law prior to 2006, he replied: "Anything is possible".

So too with federal law: Prior to 1954, the Court had struck down just 77 federal statutes in a century-and-a-half of jurisprudence; in the 50-odd years since, it's overturned more than 80.

The likelihood derived from the appropriate Mendelian law (prior probability) is combined with any additional information that has been obtained from the consultand's family history or from any tests performed (conditional probability).

The 1945 Act provides the basic framework of water law (prior appropriation) in Kansas.

Lawmakers had proposed some 178 amendments to the patent law prior to the vote.

Rather, Section 5 provides a safe harbor for states to select electors in contested elections "by judicial or other methods" established by laws prior to the Election Day.

It goes on to contrast Portugal with the Czech Republic, where an evaluation found that there was no significant decline in the availability of drugs following an earlier implementation of stricter laws, prior to decriminalisation.

Beauchamp may have been a tenant of his father-in-law prior to his marriage.

The report compared turnout data in those two states to data in four other states (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine) that had not changed their voting laws prior to that election.

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