Sentence examples for permissive statute from inspiring English sources
In 1909, under a permissive statute, 35 Stat.
Known as "adoptive" forfeiture, it allowed state and local authorities to sidestep sometimes stricter state laws, processing forfeiture cases under the more permissive federal statute.
More disturbingly, he said, the two cases highlight a tension between Florida's permissive self-defense statutes and its stringent penalties for firearm violence.
This grant of federal jurisdiction is plainly permissive, not mandatory, for "the statute does not state nor even suggest that such jurisdiction shall be exclusive.
I am not a loss to understand how a change of venue statute expressed in positive but permissive terms and specifically applicable to felony cases can be construed to embody a negative prohibition for misdemeanor cases, particularly with regard to so fundamental a right as the right to have a trial untainted by community prejudice.
It analyzes the constitutionality of two different presumption statutes (one mandatory and one permissive) as they apply to the basic fact of possession of both heroin and cocaine, and the presumed facts of importation and distribution of narcotic drugs.
Indeed, in this very case the permissive presumptions in § 265.15(3) and its companion drug statute, N.Y.Penal Law § 220.25(1) (McKinney Supp.
The statute is wholly directed to defining and prohibiting the substantive offense concerned and expresses no purpose, either permissive or prohibitory, regarding the police conduct that will be tolerated in the detection of crime.
Permissive temporary exceptions.
