Sentence examples for statute determined from inspiring English sources

In a concurring opinion in Downes v. Bidwell (1901), one of a group called the Insular cases, White argued that "incorporation" into the United States, by treaty or statute, determined the availability of constitutional safeguards to residents of a new U.S. possession.

When our search results referred to another statute, we went directly to this statute and determined relevancy for the report.

Through the Moroccan government's guiche statute, which determined the status of guiche land in Morocco, these lands came under the state's protection as a part of the state's "private domain".

The fundamental principle courts apply in statutory interpretation is to look to the whole statute to determine its intent, not pick isolated clauses out of context.

If the decedent died intestate (without leaving a will), check your state's intestate inheritance statute to determine to whom the property passes.

It was the individual, "as applied" challenge that the decision today, Seling v. Young, No. 99-1185, foncelosed once a sexual predator statute has been determined to be civil in nature.

Unlike virtually the whole of the rest of Europe, the UK relied on judge-made common law and statutes to determine the scope of our freedoms.

Justice Scalia also objected to the majority's consideration of "modern state and federal statutes" in determining the meaning to the word "filed" in the 1938 law.

But Julie Vallese, director of public affairs for the commission, said: "The presence of lead is not enough for the agency, under our jurisdiction and statutes, to determine that there's a risk.

In the West, succession may by dictated by a will made by the deceased or by the laws of intestacy, statutes that determine the distribution of property in the event the deceased left no will.

One must review a specific state's statutes to determine the types of liens available and the procedures to assert them.