"I don't think the obstruction of justice statutes were drawn with them in sight," he said.
Moreover, in Parliament many statutes were drawn up based on petitions sent from the House of Commons to the crown and the latter's answers.
The federal criminal statutes are drawn extremely broadly -- criminalizing, for example, any "scheme or artifice to defraud".
It was here, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, that the first draft of the Catalan statute of self-government was drawn up and, in the civil war, the building was used as a hospital.
Sutherland noted that the indictment was drawn under Revised Statute § 2145, which provides for federal jurisdiction of crimes committed in "Indian Country".
Only one category of crimes set forth in the authority's statute is not drawn from international humanitarian law: a hodgepodge of three Iraqi laws, including a 1958 provision that forbids the use of armed force against an Arab country.
In using the law, the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is drawing upon the securities fraud statute behind many of the biggest actions against financial firms in recent years.
And if one were drawing up a list of such critical missions, one would surely include the reopening of the Statute of Liberty among them.
Because the concerns that spurred the original bar remain as important today as when the statute was enacted, and because the statute is closely drawn to avoid unnecessary abridgment of associational freedoms, we reject the plaintiffs' challenge.
On 27 March 1621, James suggested the House of Commons draw up a list of the three most objectionable patents, and he would remove them, but by this time a statute was already being prepared by Coke.
