In the Constitutions of Clarendon Henry tried to set down in writing the ancient customs of the land.
Its 51 articles set down in writing for the first time the legal precedents of the bakufu.
Lord Chief Justice Woolf, Britain's top judge, was pilloried in the press this week for suggesting that the two legal systems are more similar than screenwriters make out.Lord Woolf was trying to set down in writing how far judges could "discount" minimum prison terms for defendants who plead guilty.
Not only did he set down in writing the fullest portrait imaginable of a liberal and free-thinking man, Samuel Johnson, but in his journal he left behind a unique record of the daily activities, doubts and dreads, vanities and self-vauntings, of another man: himself.
Dürer, in 1512, was the first artist of the era to properly set down in writing his theories of art, followed by Lucas de Heere in 1565 and Karel van Mander in 1604.
Where the breach has occurred in a jurisdiction outside the UK, local practises or customs should be disregarded when deciding this, unless they form part of the "written law" of the jurisdiction; "written law" is given to mean any constitution, statute or judicial opinion set down in writing.
Should Congress find the votes to take back at least $25 billion and loan it to the auto industry in the lame duck session of the 110th Congress (not likely in the Senate), they ought to attach it to a long list of demands that need to be set down in writing.
Excessive role formalization that attempts to set down in writing every possible situation and all interventions is probably counterproductive to collaboration [ 65, 66].
His lectures were also set down in written commentaries, of which the commentary on Book I of the Sentences (a commentary known as Ordinatio) was actually written by Ockham himself.
He is the only person in this country who earns a living from that sort of music which is difficult and has never been set down in written form.
Ever since the oral epics were first set down in writing, they have been, in one way or another, undergoing a continual process of translation.
