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In accordance with the statute on autopsies in official institutions the said Emanuel Vogler will be duly examined obedient to a decision by Medical Councillor Vergerus and myself.
By statute, we have the right to request a mental examination by our own doctor.
Are you familiar with that statute, Mr. Biegler?
Bertram Cates, this court has found you guilty of violating public act volume 37, statute 31428 as charged.
But since there has been no previous violation of this statute, there's no precedent to guide the bench passing sentence.
There ought to be a piscatorial statute!
I gave the Soviet security counsellors the statute and advantage of the diplomatic corps.
Although there should be a statute of limitations, we're still paying the dues.
Covered by the statute of limitations.
I can understand your strict enforcement of the statute.
Perhaps there's an exception to the statute.
You're under arrest for violation of the RICO Statute.
It'll take longer, but if you were inside learning the ropes, we'd have a much better chance of a watertight, foolproof Act when it gets to the statute book.
The statute of limitations hasn't run out yet on the Mann Act. Statutory rape.
So what's he waiting for? It's time to give that territory its own statute.
Therefore, with the power conferred on me. by statute number 85-E. and other statutes thereunto appertaining'. I do hereby appoint to the post of sheriff. that paragon of courage. that credit to his community. the pride of Bottleneck.
Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, ere human statute purged the gentle weal.
Each incident occurred almost precisely 1,000 statute miles from the Pole.
I caution you to carefully study the syllabus and familiarise yourselves with the Statute of Frauds.
Be especially aware of each of the exceptions and rules which may act to take an agreement outside the Statute.
By cleverly allowing himself to be caught and convicted as Raymond Barret of a burglary charge he did not commit, he hoped to wait out the statute of limitations on the robbery.
That statute expires in two days.
He thinks it's one day over the statute of limitations.
The statute of limitations still has another ten minutes to run.
A flagrant violation of the statute!
There's 25 years before the statute of limitations apply.
The statute of limitations applies.
You know what the statute of limitations is, don't you?
Our past is soon to fall under the statute of limitations anyway.
Okay, this article has a very interesting relationship. to the statute of frauds. which I thought we should get into today.
Okay, the statute of frauds was passed in 1677.
The statute of frauds is, in some form or another. the law in almost every state in the union.
After you've cleaned her up off the floor. you discover a statute which says that homeowners. must keep their land free of dangerous ice. especially, but not exclusively, ice on their sidewalks.
The one relying on the statute. and the other, ordinary negligence.
Here's the original notes he wrote. on the article about statute of frauds.
I suggest that you particularly address yourselves. to the original text of the statute of frauds. and the uniform commercial code.
Right now, we don't know whether the Utah death penalty statute is or is not in contravention to the U.S. Constitution, since it hasn't been examined by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In Italy there is now a controversial statute that will change the rules of criminal procedure in ways that might prove helpful to eminent public figures.
Getting laws onto national statute books is one thing, ensuring they are properly applied and enforced is another.
The history of social regulation in the industrial West is unambiguous: systematic, organized pressure at the workplace is essential to breathing life into the rights enshrined in statute books.
It is the failure of the UK government to amend the statute that dictates the complex structure of knockouts that the BoE's ingenious staff has been obliged to devise.
The US Postal Service has a monopoly in first-class mail through a statute which makes it a crime for others to offer common-carrier first-class service.
Once, I urged a congressmen to repeal that statute.
Moreover, the IST statute says nothing about the standard of proof, which means that guilt does not clearly have to be established beyond a reasonable doubt.
Are they, as well as children brought there by their parents, collectively guilty just because some government officials might have violated the Rome Statute since July 2002?
Thirty African governments have ratified the ICC's governing statute, and several of the Court's 18 judges hail from Africa, as does a substantial portion of its staff.
According to the statute that established the ICC, the prosecutor is required to ensure that any prosecution is in the interests of the victims as well as of justice.
Although officially adopted in December 2003 by the Iraqi Governing Council, the IST's statute was framed under contract to the US government and approved by L. Paul Bremer, the Coalition Provisional Authority's Administrator.
Of course, exemplary and punitive damages in order to discourage conduct inimical to society do exist in the statute books.
That issue was deferred when the ICC Statute was adopted in 1998.
The ICC review conference in Kampala will not be the last opportunity to amend the statute.
Whatever symbolic value this may have is overshadowed by the fact that the statute of limitations already precludes any legal action on this issue.
He could have added the Rome Statute and UN resolutions establishing the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.
Counterfeiting and rape of the Queen (contaminating the blood line) were thrown into the statute to assure that the King's currency and his House were safe.
If you examine the statute in force today you will be struck by the apparent absence of the citizenship requirement.