Sentence examples for statutes were passed from inspiring English sources

Some statutes were passed but never put into force, while others seem to have been quietly ignored.

Ever since those first civil commitment statutes were passed, scholars and lawyers have debated whether the laws infringe upon fundamental constitutional rights, including due process.

During the reign of King Edward III six measures, later known as the Six Statutes, were passed between 1331 and 1369.

If such a statute were passed, Plumer says, a president's power to classify and declassify information would be transformed into "the power to create or dissolve at will the conditions for felony prosecution.

"If such a statute were passed, even without the support of the government, it would be a clear indication that the two houses of the parliament, as constituted by elected representatives, were in support of the inquiry," Laing writes.

The statute was passed in 2006.

In 1401 the first English statute was passed for the burning of heretics.

A new statute was passed in 1999 but prompted bloody protests on the streets of Jakarta within hours.

"If, when the statute was passed, it applied to pirates, the question to me is, who are today's pirates?" he said.

Once a statute was passed, there were virtually no means for individuals to successfully challenge it within the domestic political or legal system, short of demonstrations or riots.

A few days before the statute was passed, Trooper Tate was working at his department's information booth at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass.