Sentence examples for partnership statute from inspiring English sources

The court said California's strong domestic partnership statute was not enough to solve the inequality problem.

It said the state's strong domestic partnership statute was inadequate, making California the second state to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage.

The firmly grounded ruling said that everyone has a basic right "to establish a legally recognized family with the person of one's choice," and found California's strong domestic partnership statute to be inadequate.

"We should allow the significant achievements embodied in the domestic partnership statutes to continue to take root," she wrote.

It was eight years before civil partnerships became recognised in statute and Elton and David validated the legalese for suburbia.

Geared toward ongoing organized criminal activities, the underlying tenet of RICO is to prove and prohibit a pattern of crimes conducted through an "enterprise," which the statute defines as "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity".

It said the Legislature could broaden marriage statutes or adopt a domestic partnership system.

Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey all have civil union statutes, while Maine, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii have domestic partnership laws that allow same-sex couples many of the same rights granted to those in civil unions.

The despised section 28 was ditched, and civil partnerships then equal marriage made it on to the statute books.

And because the statute is broadly worded as to what constitutes a partnership, Mr. Schulze really can't have more than preliminary talks with partners or he risks activating the statute.

Moves to legalise gay marriage cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle as it emerged that civil partnerships could be abolished as the price for getting David Cameron's plans on to the statute book.