Sentence examples for statute fixed from inspiring English sources

In 1389 a royal statute fixed the stone of wool at 14 pounds and the sack of wool at 26 stones.

The statute fixed wages at their pre-plague level and checked peasant mobility by asserting that lords had first claim on their men's services.

The Innocence Project, which works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted, recommends states pass compensation statutes that guarantee fixed sum or a range of recovery for each year spent in prison, so that who are convicted are not left with nothing after their release.

Federal district judges would have the legal discretion to fix sentences, within the range now fixed by statutes -- the statutes that were largely superseded by the guidelines.

It states: "Judges should be given no discretion in sentencing criminals: all criminal penalties should be fixed by statute.

Which is, each of the 11 members of this board would have their credentials fixed in statute.

Cable and satellite retransmitters do not infringe copyright when they retransmit a television broadcast, but they must pay a royalty fixed by statute.

It applied rules, similar to those laid down in the 6th century by the Roman emperor Justinian (see below Intestate succession: Roman law), that in 1670 were fixed in the Statute of Distribution.

By a vote of 7-2 — Marshall andissented Douglased, Douglas was no longer on the bench — the court upheld the new Georgia statute, ruling that it had fixed the problems described in Furman.

"The assumption," he added, "has long been that when the court interprets a federal statute, Congress can always come back in and fix the statute if it disagrees with the court.

The court did not set a fixed rule for determining the constitutionality of all visitation statutes.