"statute" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The bill revoked a 120-year old statute that was one of California's first environmental laws.
- It will be the oldest statute in force on the Irish statute book as of 2007.
- It will replace many older statutes in force now including:
- But the state also has on its books an older statute that is aimed at protecting military recruiters.
- Nevertheless, arrests continued under the old, unconstitutional statute, which the judge traced to 1788.
- "They could even have been sentenced under the old statute."
- Murder and theft are prohibited, too, under much older statutes.
- But it thought that reading those words more broadly in older statutes would "bring instability" to the interpretive task.
- The old statute required a finding of "credible evidence" that a senior official had broken the law.
- In some old statutes, very curious sumptuary regulations as to women's dress occur.
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