Sentence examples for modern statutes from inspiring English sources
Modern statutes still adhere to that idea but with considerable variation.
Modern statutes have expanded this definition so that arson now includes the wrongful burning of any public or private property.
The case for using dictionaries to determine the meaning of modern statutes is weaker, in part because the materials consulted by the people who compile definitions can skew the results.
Basic ideas have changed little, other than the fact that some modern statutes have imposed responsibility without fault and that corporations can now be held responsible for the acts of their management.
Beyond the basic Federal Register notice and comment required by Federal law since 1935, modern statutes require a blizzard of technical and economic reviews (most prominently the economic cost-benefit analysis and the Environmental Impact Statement) and stakeholder consultations.
And the MPs called for a modern statute to ensure that no further attempt could be made to use a "super-injunction" to block reporting of parliamentary proceedings.
"Our scoping paper lays a substantial foundation for a clear, modern statute providing a coherent scheme of structured, clearly defined offences that can be readily understood and efficiently prosecuted.
Thomas thought that information technology could be used to produce a modern statute book in which amended laws could be read without the need to refer back to the original legislation.
He said: "It concerns trafficking and what could basically be called slavery, although in modern statute it is servitude".
Allowing vastly different sentences "at the same time, the same place and even the same judge," Justice Breyer wrote, would result in "a kind of unfairness that modern sentencing statutes typically seek to combat".
In modern times the statutes issued prior to 1285 are sometimes treated as common law rather than statute law, as these laws tended to restate existing law or give it a more detailed expression.
