Sentence examples for statutory terms from inspiring English sources

Mr Winter said the apostasy ruling suggested a fusion of theological and statutory terms.

In statutory terms this annual report is a reassuring affirmation of public health directors' freedom to speak their mind.

California has just set up a task force, to which Mr Tiersma belongs, to put jury instructions into plainer language.Lawyers fret that any attempt to put statutory terms into ordinary English could make retrials more likely.

The missions of the energy cooperatives have many similarities when formulated in abstract statutory terms.

The Fire Brigades Union said that it expected its members to ignore the offer of redundancy on statutory terms.

Last month, the home secretary revealed in a letter that she was considering standing down the current panel in favour of a royal commission or a new inquiry on statutory terms.

In the absence of such a definition, we construe a statutory term in accordance with its ordinary and natural meaning.

"The statutory term 'visitorial powers' is susceptible to more than one meaning," Justice Thomas wrote, "and the agency's construction is reasonable" and thus should be deferred to.

In its brief, the government takes pains to point to other language in the ACA to contend that "established by the state" is a "statutory term of art" embracing all of the exchanges, not only those set up by states.

Fourth, the Court refused to distinguish between the statutory term of "people" and the concept of a "state".

This can be the case where a statutory term evaluated by the authority is so general and ambiguous that reasonable people may peg different meanings to it.