Sentence examples for war law from inspiring English sources

The world court ruled that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would "generally" be contrary to war law but might be lawful "in extreme circumstances of self-defence, in which the very survival of a state would be at stake".

For a description of the legal aspects of war and the military, see war, law of.

This was a time-warped view of war law in 1996 that is not tenable today.

Thanks to a post-Civil War law, the state gives them special permits to sell their wares on sidewalks.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

In all other societies, from primitive to socialist, a single source of authority makes both the determinations of war, law, & public ceremony, which we recognize as political & those which we recognize as economic.

AFTER the Northern victory in the Civil War, laws passed by Congress during the era of Reconstruction imposed military governments on the former Confederate states.

As John Charles Boger of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund told the Court the other day, it is as though Georgia still obeyed pre-Civil War laws setting racial criteria for executions.

The organization's endorsement stands as a rebuttal to the disproportionate impact of drug war laws and enforcement on the state's black and Latino populations.

It was a key early drug-war law, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which made the first statutory reference to detainers, says Christopher Lasch, a professor at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law.

At the very least, it seems likely that Johnson is about to start breaking some serious Star Wars laws.