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Discover LudwigThe phrase "statutory rule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a rule or regulation that is established by statute or law.
Example: "The statutory rule requires all businesses to comply with safety regulations to ensure employee welfare."
Alternatives: "legislative regulation" or "legal rule".
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And there have been some suggestions that a President could use that language to basically ignore this debt ceiling rule, which is a statutory rule.
Unlike Obama (or Clinton), I am not a constitutional lawyer, but plenty of constitutional lawyers agree with me (as I argued here) that the "statutory rule" of the debt-limit law should yield to the combination of the 14th Amendment, the "take care" clause of Article II, and the many properly enacted laws that cannot be carried out without further borrowing.
The rules for calculating corporation tax generally ran in parallel with income tax until 1993, when the first statutory rule to move profit reporting into line with generally accepted accounting practice was introduced, although the courts were already moving towards requiring trading profits to be computed using general accountancy rules.
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These statutory rules have on the whole remained unchanged but have been somewhat modified in application.
Nearly all statutory rules are intended to protect either creditors or investors.
A regulator cannot ignore complaints or flagrant breaches of the statutory rules it is charged with enforcing".
Transcripts and testimony, however, are still sealed, in accordance with strict statutory rules for grand-jury secrecy.
He added: "There are different statutory rules in some situations … [where] you prosecute certain criminal offences, including torture.
The website does, however, encourage landlords to draw up a contract with lodgers since there are no statutory rules governing this area.
"We recommended that there should be a statutory appointment of a conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, with statutory rules so that it is very clear what people can and cannot do.
In the absence of clearly defined domestic statutory rules and on the basis of the current approach to Strasbourg case law, the English Courts will be obliged to "absorb" these developments in the new law of privacy.
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