Sentence examples for over statute from inspiring English sources
Part II maintains that a private law model need not be associated with formalist reasoning, an elevation of common law over statute, or political conservatism.
The crucial question to any journalist advocating independent regulation over statute is this: is the new regulator proposed by the press sufficiently tough, independent and enduring to command widespread public support?
This aspect is illustrated in an exchange with the parliamentarian Asher C. Hinds over statute drafting procedures in the United States House of Representatives.
- Because many states have a "dollar-over" statute that requires Insurance pay all attorney fees, if the courts find in your favor for the value of your auto- even if that value is just $1 over the value the Insurance Company is trying to force you to accept!
Since the financial crisis, says Alex Kozinski, a judge, prosecutors have been more tempted to pore over statutes looking for ways to stretch them so that this or that activity can be construed as illegal.
Enacted constitutional provisions take precedence over statutes, of course, but if the statutory measure gets more votes than either of the proposed constitutional changes, it's not clear which would be enacted.
"There are over 1,000 statutes in federal law where benefits accrue to spouses, particularly in issues of monetary significance, like Social Security, Medicare, income tax and inheritance," he said.
The Obama administration sued Arizona over the statute and federal courts have suspended its central provisions.
In the case at bar there are special reasons why the contract cannot prevail over the statute enacted later.
The most serious charges against Mr. Geoghan, two counts of child rape, still stand, against a backdrop of dispute over the statute of limitations.
There was additional confusion over the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases — or whether there even was one, given the Vatican's reaffirmation of the 1922 and 1962 papal instructions.
