Statute in a sentence

If DOJ is not willing to charge this statute, why would the FBI in an affidavit use this statute as predication to obtain a search warrant if this statute is never going to be prosecuted?

In 2012, the Legislature approved a statute allowing victims to file civil claims against their abusers long after the statute of limitations had passed.

Public service employees’ retirement age has always been set by statute and will continue to be set by Statute as and when amended.

The definition of this crime was adopted through amending the Rome Statute at the first review conference of the Statute in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010.

They have declined to respect resolutions of the House of Commons, saying that only a statute can bind them, and then threatened to ignore the statute that Parliament duly passed to limit their options.

Turning first to the intestacy statute, the statute applies to assets that are owned by the decedent alone.

After the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Georgia's death penalty statute in Furman v. Georgia (1972), Carter signed a revised death penalty statute which addressed the court's objections, thus re-introducing the practice in the state.

Although neither agreement alone comes under the Statute of Frauds, the extension modifies the original contract to make it a 15-month lease, thereby bringing it under the Statute.

Another meaning of "codified law" is a statute that takes the common law in a certain area of the law and puts it in statute or code form.

Article 46 of the Rome Statute allows the Assembly to remove from office a judge or prosecutor who "is found to have committed serious misconduct or a serious breach of his or her duties" or "is unable to exercise the functions required by this Statute".

Based on this, depending on the context of application and whether a particular statute infringes on the executive powers of the State or the Commonwealth the Crown may or may not be immune from any particular statute.

Because the statute in question had not apportioned income taxes on income from property by population, the statute was ruled unconstitutional.

But note that in each case, the statute sets the general principles, but the interstitial common law process determines the scope and application of the statute.

Faced with a contradiction between two equally authentic texts of the statute, the court considered which interpretation better served the objects and purposes of the statute, and hence found that they are binding.

In 1994, the ILC presented its final draft statute for the International Criminal Court to the General Assembly and recommended that a conference be convened to negotiate a treaty that would serve as the Court's statute.

No statute of limitations applies to any of the crimes defined in the Statute.

Retaliation is also prohibited by Title VII against any person for opposing any practice forbidden by statute, or for making a charge, testifying, assisting, or participating in a proceeding under the statute.

Rome Statute, Article 6. There are five such acts which constitute crimes of genocide under article 6: Rome Statute, Articles 6(a)–6(e).

Scholars have pointed out the Supreme Court itself already had engaged in judicial review before Marbury, although it had not struck down the statute in question because it concluded that the statute was constitutional.

Since Martin has something to lose - the ability to sue Ziherl for damages - if the statute is upheld, she had standing to challenge the constitutionality of the statute even though the possibility of her being prosecuted for violating it was zero.