Sentence examples for statutes that have from inspiring English sources

The three state statutes that have passed — most recently in Arizona — make corporations exempt.

Routinely, hundreds of statutes that have virtually nothing to do with the budget per se, and that often possess dubious public-policy value, get appended to the budget bill.

WASHINGTON — "The duty of the Justice Department is to defend statutes that have been passed by Congress, unless there is some very compelling reason not to," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said during his 2009 confirmation hearings.

The schooling laws fly in the face of compulsory education statutes that have been on the books throughout this country since the early 20th century, not to mention the new national push to raise standards and improve student achievement.

That expanded bill, passed with little debate by the Legislature and signed in December by Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, is the newest of more than two dozen so-called Stand Your Ground statutes that have been enacted around the country in recent years.

Above all the proposals interfere with statutes that have slept for over 300 years and a common law rule of far greater antiquity," he said.

JUDGE CHRISTINA A. SNYDER dismissed the case last week, saying that the statute of limitations had long since expired.

In Michigan, lawmakers did likewise, agreeing, for instance, to repeal statutes that had designated as crimes prizefighting and dueling.

After enacting the Digest as a lawbook, Justinian repealed all of the other law contained in the treatises of the jurists and directed that those treatises should never be cited in the future, even by way of illustration; at the same time, he abrogated all of the statutes that had formed a part of the old law.

The Act puts principles into statute that have long been in the domain of social work, and provides a script for modern social work with adults.

The Barton case is one of about two dozen involving the new statute that have begun making their way through the courts in the past year, said Laura L. Prather, an Austin lawyer who led efforts to pass the statute.