Sentence examples for time statutes from inspiring English sources

This is mainly because a non-specialist judge may have to read for the first time statutes and case law that a specialist judge will already know and understand.

Prior to that time, statutes and decisional law precluded the biological father from obtaining such status, distinguishing them from fathers who were married to the child's mother at the time of conception.

It is the first time that statute will be used in a social networking case, according to the United States attorney for Los Angeles, Thomas P. O'Brien.

In modern times the statutes issued prior to 1285 are sometimes treated as common law rather than statute law, as these laws tended to restate existing law or give it a more detailed expression.

"The statute says nothing about prohibiting the release of those records after a person is dead, but at the same time the statute doesn't authorize the release after death," Mr. Giuliani said.

Legal experts followed the case closely, saying it was the first time the statute had been used to prosecute a patron of a social networking site for abuses of the site.

But so far all of them have floundered on the rock of time – the statute of limitations that restricts the period after an alleged crime in which prosecutions can be brought.

Most of EPA's standards are dictated by time-honored statutes like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

On 27 March 1621, James suggested the House of Commons draw up a list of the three most objectionable patents, and he would "give Life to it, without alteration", but by this time a statute was already being prepared by Coke.

On 27 March 1621, James suggested the House of Commons draw up a list of the three most objectionable patents, and he would remove them, but by this time a statute was already being prepared by Coke.

In 1977, the state Board of Tax Appeals ruled that all three bookstores should have been paying the tax, but by this time, the statute of limitations had expired, and none of the three were required to pay any back taxes.