Sentence examples for statute replaced from inspiring English sources

This statute replaced ones from 1820, 1823, 1838, 1841 and 1848, and has since been supplemented 11 times, most recently in 1995.

Congress should amend the Defense of Marriage Act to replace the sentence I quoted earlier with the following: "Wherever the word 'marriage' appears in any federal statute, replace that word with the phrase 'domestic partnership between two people valid under the laws of the state where it was obtained.' " I am not a lawyer, so I will not try to spell out all the details of how this would work.

If Anderson's recommendations are accepted, one comprehensive and comprehensible statute would replace the 65 different statutory provisions under which 600 public bodies can obtain information.

State Department lawyers want statutes to replace rushed assertions from the Bush era of a right to act against terror worldwide.

His greatest accomplishments were the Law of Property Act (1922) and subsequent real-property statutes (1925) that replaced a convoluted, largely medieval system of land law.

The law of privacy has been developed by the judges as part of the common law and the common law can be replaced by statute.

Customs remained only if they could not be replaced by statutes.

The attack yesterday came — perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not — on a day when hearings were scheduled for a new anti-terror statute intended to replace the 2003 law.

The overturned law, which replaced a stricter statute, required landlords to visually inspect apartments built before 1960 when a child under 6 lived there, and specified that the city would take over repairs if a landlord failed to make them.

Edward I of England annexed the Principality of Wales following the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Welsh Law was replaced for criminal cases under the Statute.

Despite a period of instability known as the Battle of the Booksellers when the initial copyright terms under the Statute began to expire, the Statute of Anne remained in force until the Copyright Act 1842 replaced it.