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But officials said he could draw on a range of treaties and statutes, from the Geneva Conventions to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

You laugh about funny case names, read obscure legal statutes from the 17th century and spend ages translating Latin phrases, which you forget a minute later.

As a precaution, authorities in Palmyra had removed hundreds of statutes from the archaeological complex for safekeeping.

In California, companies are generally prohibited from enforcing noncompete agreements because of a worker-friendly statute from the 19th century.

Instead, in an apparent attempt to show how neutral the statute is, the state's lawyers unmoored the statute from the history cited by Justice Thomas.

Those cases involved admissions of violating the federal wire fraud statute from the submission of false information designed to manipulate Libor, not a violation of the antitrust laws.

"We are gearing up for the effective date of the statute from the enforcement standpoint," said Brian Huseman, a F.T.C. staff lawyer who works on spam litigation.

A clear majority, 60percentt, voted to remove the miscegenation statute from the state constitution, but 40percentt of Alabamans -- nearly 526,000 people -- voted to keep it.

Rather than wins, any discussion about Newton thus far turns into a discussion of yards, the anachronistic measurement defined legally in a British statute from the 13th century as equaling three feet.

Having detached the words of the statute from the intentions of its drafters, they were free to range through the possible dictionary meanings of "use a firearm" and choose one that pleased them.

Not before time, the act sweeps away the last remaining statute from the Beveridge blueprint for the welfare state, the long outdated National Assistance Act, and brings a welcome clarity to legislation for professionals who have until now had to wrestle with perhaps half a dozen – sometimes even more – separate laws, directions and sets of statutory guidance when dealing with individual cases.