Sentence examples for statutes permit from inspiring English sources

The NLRB argues that its founding statutes permit a five-member board to delegate power to a three-member board, and that the three-member board may further delegate to a quorum of two.

In most of the United States and England, statutes permit the creation of an easement by prescription, which arises by virtue of a long, continuous usage of the property of another by a landowner, his ancestors, or prior owners.

Peruvian statutes permit a suspect to be detained for up to 18 months for interrogation, though Altez Navarro expressed skepticism that law enforcement officers will do so with his client.

A number of states hold that the right of publicity ends with the subject's death, while almost all the states with publicity rights statutes permit the right to be inherited.

In U.S. law, for example, Congress has passed statutes permitting prosecutions under all of the jurisdictional bases listed above.

(Three states have statutes permitting second-parent adoptions; nearly two dozen others have granted such rights through the courts).

Twenty-eight states have statutes permitting the easy dismissal of libel suits under so-called "anti-SLAPP" laws designed to protect consumers' free speech.

Some states have statutes permitting such support, while others have court precedent allowing it.

A statute permitting indefinite detention of an alien would raise a serious constitutional problem.

The statute permits bans unless they harm the "public health and welfare" or "competitive conditions in the United States economy".

California is the latest state to adopt a statute permitting what is called flexible-purpose corporations, new companies that are part social benefit and part low-profit entities.