Sentence examples for statutes before from inspiring English sources

Justice Breyer noted that courts had often supported extensions of those statutes before they expired, but not revival of them after they expired.

The third court structure, the Constitutional Council, which reviews the constitutionality of international agreements and statutes before they go into effect, also treats Community law as international law.

The difference between such a case and the plan and operation of the statutes before us is so plain as not to call for further elaboration.

"The point we are trying to make in this bill is that when we have used the word spouse in our statutes before, that's really what we meant: one man, one woman," Representative Seitz said during final debate on Tuesday.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer said he was inclined to ignore the controversy over forum shopping, focusing instead on what Congress had meant to achieve in the statutes before the court.

While the Court has considered legislative history in construing criminal statutes before, it appears that only one case, Dixson v. United States, 465 U.S. 482, has relied on legislative history to "clarify" an ambiguous statute against a criminal defendant's interest.

For similar reasons, we read an implicit limitation into the statute before us.

The statute before us deprives the trial judge of none of his normal judicial powers.

"The civil commitment statute before us represents a modest addition," he added, comparing it to medical quarantine.

"The statute before us," Justice Breyer wrote, "does not encourage anyone to produce a single new work".

Mr. Williams had not even read the entire death penalty statute before his client's first trial in 1987.