Sentence examples for use the statute from inspiring English sources
In recent years, however, lawyers have figured out how to use the statute in cases involving leased cars.
The document also says that the archdiocese will not use the statute of limitations or the special status of the church as a charity to limit the payments.
It was an attempt to use the statute book to excuse and legitimise an atrocity that could never withstand the scrutiny of a court".
But the ruling left open the possibility that federal prosecutors could use the statute to prosecute state and local officials in bribery and kickback schemes, as federal prosecutors now seem inclined to do with Mr. Bruno.
They maintained there are no laws that prevent adults and even children from riding motorbikes on private property and blasted her in the May issue of American Motorcyclist Magazine, a journal of the nonprofit group, questioning whether she would use the statute "to stop young people from participating in other potentially dangerous recreation".
"There's a certain category of employer that feels it's appropriate to use the statutes enacted as a shield to protect the workers as a sword against them".
When the Medomsley victims first sought redress, the Home Office used the statute of limitations to avoid payment.
The Justice Department is known to have used the statute at least 50 times since the Sept. 11 attacks, and civil liberties advocates said Monday that the Mayfield case demonstrated the potential for abuse.
Ramsey county police used the statute to break up an anarchist group called the RNC Welcoming Committee that planned to carry out direct action protests, including roadblocks, to prevent delegates to the Republican national convention from entering the Xcel Center in Minneapolis.
In another high-profile case, prosecutors are using the statute to accuse a prominent New York defense lawyer, Lynne F. Stewart, of helping an imprisoned sheik pass messages to terrorist followers in Egypt.
Against him and others, the Justice Department used the statute, Mr. Kidd's lawyers inferred and others must as well, "to detain and investigate suspects for whom the government lacked probable cause of wrongdoing, and not to secure testimony".
