Sentence examples for remaining statute from inspiring English sources

Not before time, the act sweeps away the last remaining statute from the Beveridge blueprint for the welfare state, the long outdated National Assistance Act, and brings a welcome clarity to legislation for professionals who have until now had to wrestle with perhaps half a dozen – sometimes even more – separate laws, directions and sets of statutory guidance when dealing with individual cases.

Gay-rights groups hope that if enough states adopt laws allowing same-sex marriages, the Supreme Court will be willing to overturn the remaining statutes, much as it did in 1967 when it struck down laws that banned interracial marriages.

The three artists want to take the head of the first dismantled Lenin monument, dip it in gold, attach it to a Cuban-link chain, and hang the entire artwork on the largest remaining Lenin statute.

Only three clauses of Magna Carta still remain on statute in England and Wales.

It is unsurprising that this law has been ignored since the 19th century, despite it remaining on the statute books.

Right of publicity statutes were first adopted in the 1950s as an outgrowth of privacy laws, and currently 35 states have publicity laws (11 other states have case law on publicity but no statutes, while the remaining four states have no statutes or common law).

Five-year fixed parliamentary terms may remain on the statute book.

The law remained on the statute book for several months while the Justice Ministry argued that it was unenforceable.

In Piedmont the new constitution, the Statuto Albertino (Albertine Statute), remained in force, and democratic ideas survived.

It was this law, known as the "blackmailer's charter", under which Oscar Wilde was convicted in 1895 and which remained on the statute books until 1967.

When the HRA was introduced there was no thought to disturb the 1689 Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, both of which remain on the statute book.