Sentence examples for statutes setting from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Latimer, the state ombudsman, said in an interview that she could find no statutes setting forth several of the requirements Mr. Volder had mentioned.

Dandolo also revised the penal code and published the first collection of civil statutes, setting the customary law of Venice on a firm juridical basis.

In 1998, Stelmach sponsored the Agriculture Statutes (Penalties) Amendment Act, which overhauled the penalty system for violation of various agricultural statutes, setting maximum fines and leaving the precise amount up to judges on a case by case basis.

In many areas, the Constitution (and statutes) set out broad principles and a judge's judicial philosophy determines how she will go about interpreting these broad principles and deciding what the law is.

Although the statutes set out the full medieval ceremony which was to be used for creating knights, this was not performed, and indeed was possibly never intended to be, as the original statutes contained a provision allowing the Great Master to dispense Knights Companion from these requirements.

Among the statutes set down were that the law could only be made by Parliament and could not be suspended by the King, also that the King could not impose taxes or raise an army without the prior approval of Parliament.

All studies were performed using the Frem1 bat ' bat' mouse allele (Smyth et al., 2004) in accordance with the regulatory statutes set out by the Monash University Animal Welfare Committee and legislation of the Australian and Victorian governments relating to the use of experimental animals.

Florida enacted a statute setting compensation for wrongful criminal convictions; the amount was $50,000 for every year served in prison.

The decision, he said, essentially rewrote a state statute setting a Nov. 14 deadline for canvassers to report their totals.

Crucially, the only new legislation involved might be a statute setting out the characteristics that any regulatory group would need to meet to gain the legal incentives discussed.

In June it issued an emergency ordinance modifying the 2003 statute setting up the Romanian Cultural Institute, which had previously reported directly to President Traian Basescu, Mr. Ponta's political rival.