The phrase "statute in force" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a law or regulation that is currently valid and applicable in a particular jurisdiction. Example: The government announced that a new statute would come into force next month, replacing the current one.
Moreover, Congress has kept the statute in force more than sixty years since the Counselman decision.
With this statute in force, the company paid and the state officers received the money in question.
This leaves the statute in force but puts pressure on the government to reform it, since the UK has signed up to the convention and pledged that it will comply with convention rights.
Under the statute in force at the time of this appeal, owing to the amount involved, the decision of the court of appeals might be brought by appeal in review before this court.
The statute in force at the time of the alleged contempts confined the power of courts in cases of this sort to where there had been 'misbehavior of any person in their presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.' Section 268, Jud.
The statute in force at the time of his naturalization required that 'he has behaved as a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States' during the previous five years. 2 These arrests were made some years prior to the critical five-year period.
The official publication Statutes in Force (KD132.S72 and in Microform) contains all statutes in force from 1235, in subject order along with their amendments.
It is true that later statutes in force when the contract was made allowed a conveyance with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
"The decision in this case will, in effect, determine the constitutionality of nearly all the statutes in force in the United States, limiting the hours of labor of adult women," Brandeis explained in his brief.
854), Congress enacted that the common law, and all British statutes in force in Maryland on the 27th day of February, 1801, should remain in force, except so far as inconsistent with or replaced by some provision of the Code.
There seems to be no section that in terms recognizes a right to take exceptions on rulings other than such as are made in the course of the trial, unless this right follows from the adoption of the statute of Westminster as being among the 'British statutes in force in Maryland,' etc.
