Sentence examples for statutes quo from inspiring English sources

Thus registration Statutes, quo warranto proceedings as to subversive corporations, the subversive instigation of riots and a host of other subjects directly affecting state security furnish grist for the State's legislative mill.

This created much argument, which was resolved in the Statute of Quo Warranto of 1290.

The 1290 statute of Quo warranto was only one part of a wider legislative effort, which was one of the most important contributions of Edward I's reign.

It is conceded that the Ohio statute which authorized the proceedings in quo warranto for any abuse or misuse of corporate powers, and which empowered the court, if it decreed against the defendant, to appoint trustees to liquidate the affairs of the corporation, was a part of the general law of Ohio at the time the defendant corporation was organized.

This was an action in the nature of quo warranto brought, under the statutes of Kentucky, by J. C. W. Beckham against William S. Taylor and John Marshall, for usurpation of the offices of governor and lieutenant governor of Kentucky, in the circuit court of Jefferson county, in that commonwealth.

To be fair, the law is a bit unsettled in this area, particularly the question of what constitutes an illegal quid pro quo under bribery and related statutes.

State legislators insist that the status quo benefits consumers: the relevant Florida statute claims to be "providing consumer protection and fair trade".

Mr. Walden argued that SUNY had willfully flouted the court's orders to maintain the status quo, and had ignored the criminal statute requiring a hospital to provide emergency services unless it was authorized by the state to stop.

The quo warranto inquiry, begun in 1275, the statutes of Gloucester (1278) and of Quo Warranto (1290) sought with much success to bring existing franchises under control and to prevent the unauthorized assumption of new ones.

The Supreme Court has held that courts must defer to agency interpretations of broadly worded congressional statutes unless those interpretations are "unreasonable," perpetuating a status quo of rule by administrative fiat.

In the quo warranto proceedings set up under the Statute of Gloucester of 1278 the magnates were asked by what warrant they claimed rights of jurisdiction and other franchises.