A special paper was designated and public notice was given under the statute by which it was made a crime for any person to make, use or have in his possession any paper so designated.
The proviso of the statute was in these words: "Provided that the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, etc.
The policy of the majority of the commission prevailed, and it was consummated by the Statute of 1878, which was passed over the veto of President Hayes, and which authorized the coinage of the silver dollar.
In the opinion of the majority, it was the necessity of the situation that the power of impeachment should extend to acts and offences that were not indictable bystatute nor at common law.
Walker, and that all of the lawyers consulted had expressed the opinion that the officers of the army were bound by the order whether the statute was constitutional or unconstitutional.
It was provided by the statute that whenever five-twenty bonds were called, a notice of ninety days should be given, when interest would cease.
The object of his amendment was to save negroes from the exclusive features of the statutewhich was designed to apply only to the Chinese.
All the subsequent legislation has rested upon the fact that the Statuteof 1873 made the gold dollar the standard of value in the United States.
And this statute made in pursuance of the Constitution shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any State notwithstanding.
Judge Curtis gave to the proviso to that statute an interpretation corresponding to the interpretation given to criminal statutes.
It is to be observed that in the eleventh article there is no allegation that the President had committed an offence that was indictable under any statute of the United States or that would have been indictable at common law.
If he supposes it was implied that the constitution would be submitted to a vote of the people, how could these two lines so encumber the statute as to make it necessary to strike them out?
The enforcement of the English statute relating to piracy was variously interpreted in the Colonial courts, and local enactments sometimes superseded it in actual practice.
Previous to 1700, the statute required that men accused of piracy should be sent to England to be tried before a High Court of Admiralty.
Under this monstrous statutemany persons suffered.
But the Church at last persuaded the government to let her try her hand, and the statute "de heretico comburendo" was passed A.
The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do.
But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
Our only option was, either to fall in with this settled course of public policy, and accommodate ourselves to it as well as we could, or to embrace the South Carolina doctrine, and talk of nullifying the statute by State interference.
Those purposes," says Sir William Grant, "are considered charitable which that statute enumerates.
The learned judge of that circuit says: "Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights, acquired under existing laws, must be deemed retrospective.
A statuteis what it is judicially interpreted to be; and if it be construed one way in New Hampshire, and another way in Georgia, there is no uniform law.
The statute had assigned the especial duty of removing the deposits, if removed at all, to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to him alone.
Nevertheless, though legal, though thus independently existing, though thus binding the party everywhere, and capable of being enforced everywhere, yet the statute of New York says that it shall be discharged without payment.
The establishment of learning," says Lord Hardwicke, "is a charity, and so considered in thestatute of Elizabeth.
I mean to confine myself to that description of charity, the statute charity, and to apply it to this case alone.
If the parties contemplated any law, they contemplated all the law that bore on their contract, the aggregate of all the statute and constitutional provisions.
There is no statute or enactment of any nation to enforce such an order.
They sought still to delude it with the cry that "the Act" was on the Statute Book and that all would be well.
Another fact that cannot be lost sight of is that there is a Home Rule Act on the Statute Book.
Statute Book two Acts of considerable importance--the Town Tenants Act and the Housing of the Working Classes Act, but beyond these the less said of their Parliamentary conquests from 1903 onward the better.
Many offences which are at common law or bystatute felonies, or misdemeanours indictable at common law or by statute, may under certain conditions be tried by a court of summary jurisdiction (q.
For instance, killing a horse in an unlicensed place is still felony under a statute of 1786.
These remedies were insufficient to cover all cases where money or other properties had been obtained by false pretences, and the offence was first partially created by a statute of Henry VIII.
It put into the statute the prudent, cautious sense of the people.
Among the most important of the changes were the limitation of the statute to the term of two years and a serious modification of the judicial powers accorded to the officers of the Bureau in the preceding bill.
The agent referred to in the statute was the well-known overseer of the cotton region, who was always coarse and often brutal, sure to be profane, and scarcely knowing the border-line between ribaldry and decency.
For the violation of this statute a punishment was provided by fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than five years.
The real significance of the Act just passed was that to a certain degree it checked and even neutralized the operation of the statute which ordered contraction.
I have examined the matter with some care, and I know of no slave-statute which says that Africans alone shall be slaves.
Any person who under any law, statute or regulation of any kind should attempt to violate the provisions of the Act, would be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.
And if the presumption of obedience with respect to statute law be general, much stronger should it be with respect to organic law, upon which the entire structure of free government is founded.
In a statuterelating to plays and games, passed in the thirty-third year of that king's reign, 1541, we find the following restrictions.
Cited by Warton, in his History of English Poetry, who also observes that cards are mentioned in a statute of Henry VII, in the year 1496.
Mr. Justice Gawdy corroborated this, uttering the solitary judicial dictum recorded of him, that 'the statute of Edward had been found inconvenient, and had therefore been repealed.
By the same statute which relieved him from the legal disabilities of the attainder Sherborne was confirmed to the Digby family.
By 1845 there were many laws on the Statutebooks of Georgia concerning the duties of patrols.
Haywood and Cobbs, Statute Laws of the State of Tennessee, i.
Brevard (Joseph), An Alphabetical Digest of the Public Statute Law of South Carolina.
Footnote 251: Brevard, Digest of the Public Statute Law of South-Carolina, p.
This statute--to which there is a counterpart in England in the statute 21 Jac.
By the statute law of Scotland the punishment of forgery, or falsifying of writings, was at first the amputation of the hand, afterwards dismembering of it, joined with other pains.
Footnote 69: Brevard, Digest of the Public Statute Law of South Carolina, ii.
Brown (Mason), A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky.
Morehead and Brown, Digest of theStatute Laws of Kentucky, ii.
Throughout the whole history of pagan Rome there was no statute declaring it to be a crime for an ordinary citizen to take his own life.
The statute provided them with a document, signed by the commissary, chancellor, or vice-chancellor, which acted as their passport.
Exemplum: In a village in Switzerland, there is a statute whereby they give to every beggar vs.
It appears that the parish officers were compelled by this statute to make inquiry into the condition of the poor, and to ascertain who were really impotent and who were impostors.
The milk company controlling a large territory, with great resources at its command, can put into practice rules which even public statute can not enforce, and which the individual farmer will rarely do by himself.
After the dissolution of the monasteries experiments were made for their care, and by a statute 43 Eliz.
But by the Favour of these Gentlemen, I am humbly of Opinion, that a Man may be a very witty Man, and never offend one Statute of this Kingdom, not excepting even that of Stabbing.
This care as to form through the processes of amendment and revision will ultimately be complete if the enacted statute law is what it should be "to stand the test.
Statute books are heavily cumbered with laws that are unenforced because public opinion goes counter to them.
I wish something had been done for him in Congress on his petition; for I think something is due to him, nor do I see how the Statute of limitation can consistently apply to him.
I consider a statute of limitation to be a domestic law, and can only have a domestic operation.
Constitutional provisions have not secured equality of valuation, and the statute laws are powerless to make effective the sounding phrases of the Constitutions.
The distinction, however, under that statute applied only to those kinds of property which the statute did not specify, for the occupier of lands, houses, etc.
It shall be a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
Men may fail and come short, strange fire may be offered, but God's priestly family must never be deprived of the rich and gracious portion which divine love has provided and divine faithfulness secured "by a statute forever.
The second part of this statute reveals a most humiliating amount of wickedness in human nature.
The statute which next presents itself for our consideration, exemplifies most touchingly the tender care of the God of Israel.
Let us now turn to another statute of our section.
It shall be a statuteforever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
This precious privilege is theirs as "given by a statute forever, as the Lord hath commanded.
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning, before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute forever in your generations.
He will find that each statute teaches a double lesson, namely, a lesson with respect to nature's evil tendencies, and also a lesson as to Jehovah's tender care.
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year: it shall be a statute forever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
The special bounty which had hitherto been paid on cocoons, over and above their merchantable value, was suspended, and by a statute of 9 Geo.
To these prudent and salutary regulations followed a statute entitled "An act for rendering the Province of Georgia more defencible, by prohibiting the importation of black slaves, or negroes, into the same.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "statute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
