"sound law" is an English phrase which can be used in written English.
It typically refers to laws which are well-reasoned and respected by the legal community. For example: "The ruling hinged on the interpretation of sound law."
The Texas legislature passed a constitutionally sound law, and I will vigorously defend it.
"It's a big step forward for the administration to come here and say that 101A forms the basis for a sound law," Mr. Miller said.
The information given in the previous paragraphs is intended to illustrate what is meant by a sound law and to indicate the kind of considerations that are taken into account in the application of the comparative method.
Everson's statement is still the touchstone of sound law, even though the reality is that in the matter of educational aid the Establishment Clause has largely been read away.
The same logic which holds that unchecked stop-and-frisk policies constitute sound law enforcement leads us to focus on the legal minutiae of the Michael Dunn verdict — to debate how much Stand Your Ground was a factor in Dunn's actions, or to point fingers at Florida's legislature and the N.R.A.
But it is still generally held that in an early period of Indo-European, there was a sound law operative in the dialect or dialects from which Sanskrit, Iranian, Slavic and the other so-called satem languages developed that had the effect of palatalizing the original Proto-Indo-European velars and eventually converting them to sibilants.
The trouble with these seemingly sound laws is threefold.
The most famous of the sound laws is Grimm's law (though Jacob Grimm himself did not use the term law).
So far no "laws" of semantic change comparable to the phonologist's sound laws have been discovered.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The trouble with these seemingly sound laws is threefold.
Changes in the phonological systems of languages through time were accounted for in terms of sound laws.
