For this reason piracy continued its depredations long after the enactment of severe laws for its suppression.
We learn from this enactment the names by which the various places of confinement composing this spacious municipal prison were known.
This led to the abuse referred to by Tacitus, and induced the Senate to insist upon the enforcement of the re-enactment of the Cincian law, or rather a law limiting the amount of the fees of advocates.
By legislation is meant the making of law--its primary enactment or subsequent alteration.
They have therefore chosen to connive at slavery, to insinuate, intimate, and imply their approbation of it, rather than risk an affirmative enactmentdeclaring that one man may be the property of another.
A change in the law, as the enactment of a statute declaring illegal agencies of a certain nature, that previously had been legal, terminates the relation.
The object is to secure the enactment of good laws.
There is therefore no restraint upon the power of parliament; hence no law which may be enacted is contrary to the constitution; and the people have not the same security against the enactment of unjust laws as the people of the United States.
As the two houses may concur in adopting an unwise measure, an additional safeguard is provided against the enactment of bad laws, by requiring all bills to be sent to the governor for examination and approval.
It declared that the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives exercised such absolute domination as to stop the enactment of measures desired by the majority.
Business was prosperous after the enactment of the Dingley tariff and little agitation for a change was observable for a decade.
It promised the enactment of laws preventing corporation contributions to campaign funds and providing for the publication before election of all contributions by individuals.
The enactmentof such a body of legislation, with the resulting appointment of many officials and clerks, brought the President face to face with the same civil service problem that had caused so much trouble for Cleveland.
Washington, the peerless, the stainless, and the just, with whom God walked through the night of that great trial, enforced this just and wise enactment upon all occasions.
It is believed that the enactment at the last session of the bill referred to would have arrested, and that its enactment now will prevent hereafter, the frauds hitherto successfully practiced.
When the enactment was passed establishing the still existing rate, it was generally considered in Parliament that five shillings per cent.
What he proposed was to alter the enactment that the treasurers of Savings Banks should receive no emolument, and to vest the appointment of Treasurer in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
Mr. Pratt found out in making his awards that almost every legislative enactment relating to Savings Banks had here been systematically violated; that the bank itself had rules founded upon the Act, but that they had all been evaded.
Ever since this nation became the arsenal of democracy--ever since enactment of Lend-Lease--there has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda.
Not only business recovery, but the general economic recovery of the nation will be greatly stimulated by the enactment of legislation designed to improve the status of our transportation agencies.
The legislation which has been passed or is in the process of enactment can properly be considered as part of a well-grounded plan.
He procured the enactment of a law distributing the new citizens, who far out-numbered the old ones, among the tribes, knowing that they would vote in his favor.
The enactment of measures to favor the construction and maintenance of a steam carrying marine under the flag of the United States.
In view of the general and persistent demand throughout the commercial community for a national bankrupt law, I hope that the differences of sentiment which have hitherto prevented its enactment may not outlast the present session.
The regent promised to lay before parliament all the information requisite to direct them in their deliberations, and pressed on the attention of lords and commons, the enactment of such regulations as might tend to suppress the evil.
It was clear, however, to them that public opinion would be against the enactment of a partial law against that body, while the Orange societies, which were also mischievous in their tendency, were tolerated.
Many salutary provisions were made in this instrument for the further protection of the apprentices; and in order to serve the execution of such regulations of the former enactment as had been disregarded by the planters.
The prayer of the petition was for the enactment of the great constitutional changes which form the "six points" in the Chartist creed, to which was added a demand for the abolition of all kinds of monopolies.
It became necessary to pass some enactment calculated to hold Irish outrage in check.
It was necessary to watch the conduct of government in reference to the recent enactment concerning the sugar duties, and also their general policy in regard to the sugar question, and the West India interest.
I shall next show you in detail the many evils that resulted from the union, and the gross injustice of the enactment of that statute.
A further enactment forbade any constable under the provisions of this hill from voting at an election, or exercising any other employment.
Within a short time after this enactment was passed, as many as forty-one vessels were deprived of one or more hands, from one British trading vessel almost the entire crew being taken.
This enactment the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 1915.
An interesting enactment of 1670 attempted to give the Indian an intermediate status between that of the Englishman and the Negro slave, as "servants not being Christians, imported into the colony by shipping" (i.
It will be observed that by the terms of this enactment a master had the right to recover a fugitive slave by proving his ownership before a magistrate without a jury or any other of the ordinary forms of law.
On the other hand the enactment in the law of 387, not incompatible indeed with the earlier mode of management but yet far more appropriate to the later, viz.
Significant in this respect is the enactmentof the law of 305 (Liv.
As to the adjustment of the senatorial list undoubtedly the enactment of the Ovinian -plebiscitum- exercised a material share of influence--that the censors should admit to the senate "the best men out of all classes.
Footnote 1: In a previous letter Walpole mentions the enactment of the Royal Marriage Act by a very narrow majority, after more than one violent debate.
Is it just that woman, who bears her reasonable portion of the burdens of government, should be denied the right of aiding in the enactment of its laws?
I am assured the enactment of this law will delay our claims to statehood, and in so critical a period it is better that no pretext whatever be given for such postponement.
In his biënnial message, 1883, the governor recommended the enactment of a statute which should require that at least one of the physicians appointed to attend in the department for women in the hospital for the insane should be a woman.
Mrs. Arabella Mansfield was admitted to the bar in 1869, just a year previous to the enactment of the law.
I had no agency in theenactment of the law in Wyoming conferring legal equality upon women.
Women are also governed, while they have no direct voice in the government, and made subject to laws affecting their property, their personal rights and liberty, in whoseenactment they have no voice.
Such an enactment as is here proposed seems now so reasonable to us, so commonplace in its justice, that we marvel that it was not unanimously and immediately passed by the house of burgesses.
There is a recent enactment of Congress requiring that no person shall be appointed to any office of the United States, unless such office has been created by law.
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