Sentence examples for old statute from inspiring English sources

"They could even have been sentenced under the old statute".

But Mr. Coffey said the Tweed Law, an old statute on the books that holds corrupt officials liable for taxpayers' losses, could be used more aggressively.

The wave of cases has ignited a legal controversy, raising the question of whether federal prosecutors, in dusting off an old statute, are misapplying the law.

Mytting mentions an old statute book from 1687 that forbade anyone passing between a pregnant woman and the fire because her child would be born with a squint.

A curious old statute in Italy's civil code, enacted by the Fascists to encourage familiarity with firearms, gives hunters, and only hunters, the right to enter private property, regardless of who owns it, in pursuit of game.

Relying on this old statute, Charles fined individuals who had failed to attend his coronation in 1626.

Spitzer risked little by expanding old statutes to curtail the wage exploitation of grocery deliverymen, sue handgun manufacturers or curb polluting Midwestern utilities.

The decision struck down that part of a California law that allowed prosecutions of people accused of committing sex crimes many years ago, after old statutes of limitations had expired.

Let's say an unpleasant government official (Angelo) goes on a law-and-order binge, enforcing old statutes about fornication, while his boss (Vincentio, the Duke) is out of town.

Is it like violating one of those old statutes that you hear about, still on the books because no one's bothered to repeal them, forbidding domino-playing on Sundays?

The Court voided on technical grounds an earlier constitutional amendment that handed power to the head of the National Judicial Office and to the chief public prosecutor to assign any case to any court, extended the old statutes of limitations for communist-era crimes, and established a new voter registration scheme.