Sentence examples for statute which has been from inspiring English sources

The statute, which has been a target of criticism, was given a narrow construction by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Skilling v. United States (2010).

The statute, which has been modified over the years, reached the Supreme Court in 1944, when a Georgia sheriff who viciously beat an African-American suspect to death was granted a new trial because of the heightened requirements of this law.

The lawsuit began after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts in May 2004 and Gov. Mitt Romney, an opponent of it, invoked the 1913 statute, which had been originally adopted in part to block interracial marriages.

Another revision of the statutes of the Order was undertaken in 1925, to consolidate the 41 additional statutes which had been issued since the 1859 revision.

As well as laying out a long list of statutes which had been broken, it proclaimed various "rights and liberties" of free Englishmen, including a freedom from taxation without Parliamentary approval, the right of habeas corpus, a prohibition on soldiers being billeted in houses without the owner's will, and a prohibition on imposing martial law on civilians.

The concept was solidified by the Statute of Westminster 1931, which has been likened to "a treaty among the Commonwealth countries".

He also denied a charge of slavery, which has been on the Austrian statute book since the 1960s, but has never been tried in court.

The law's leading opponent was the Roman Catholic Church, which has been working hard to defeat statute of limitations reform across the country.

Nigerian statute law includes much of the British colonial legislation, most of which has been revised.

In 2010, the Spanish Constitutional Court invalidated significant parts of the Statute of Autonomy, which had been approved by the Catalan parliament and by a referendum.

Today the court held that the "Selection Sweepstakes" was a "guessing contest" which had been invariably held to be within the statutes of the ban.