Sentence examples for on the statutes from inspiring English sources

Once the law was on the statutes, she set out to use it.

Even so, what's on the statutes does not necessarily translate to what gets enforced.

Since that crime is not on the statutes, he was convicted of identity theft, criminal impersonation and forgery.

The agency has successfully relied on the statutes that cover failure to supervise and control person liability in previous cases, but it has never used them in such a prominent action.

Remember usury laws (still on the statutes in the U.S. during the 1970s)?

We can only charge on the statutes that we have".

We would be the first democracy in the world to introduce a bill of rights on the back of scrapping one already on the statute book.

Muggles would have caught on before the Statute of Secrecy went into effect.

The prime minister's spokesman said the legislation was due to be one of the early bills on the statute book.

In terms of how the United States treats immigrants, as opposed to what is on the statute books, he's the one defending the traditional way of doing things.

Gay marriage is on the statute books.