Sentence examples for moral statute from inspiring English sources

One could hold that there is a moral statute of limitations for rights violations.

Texas Supreme Court ruling, which "effectively decree[d] the end of all morals legislation," these statutes would not stand up in any court today.

"There is absolutely no legal or moral reason to have a statute of limitations for these cases," Mr. Safir said.

"There is no statute of limitations on a moral obligation," he added.

A notable example of civil resistance or satyagraha ("satya" in sanskrit means "truth and compassion", "agraha" means "firmness of will") involved Mahatma Gandhi making salt in India when that act was prohibited by a British statute, in order to create moral pressure for law reform.

Is there a statute of limitations that applies to moral obligations?

It is, of course, open to them to adopt a unified view and treat every explicit or implicit legal reference to morality -- in cases, statutes, constitutions, and customs -- as establishing moral tests for the existence of law.

There has been considerable criticism of statutes that create liability without actual moral fault.

Archbishop Marx said the church had a moral obligation to investigate reports of abuse even if the statute of limitations had expired.

The diocese can deny all they want and say the statute of limitations is up, but what is their moral obligation?" If restitution is not made, she said, the bishop should quit.

This case raises a different issue than Bowers: whether, under the Equal Protection Clause, moral disapproval is a legitimate state interest to justify by itself a statute that bans homosexual sodomy, but not heterosexual sodomy.