I have but one or two Objections to the Statutes in France, which I cannot get over.
Lots of the statutes would looked as well agin if they'd had me to advise 'em about their clothes, but still take the pictures and statutes of the Fair as a hull they're magnificent and a honor to the nations.
But as I say some of the pictures and statutes stayed in my memory so I couldn't dislodge 'em and don't want to, no indeed!
Two noble statutes stood on each side on him, kinder guardin' him as it were, though he didn't need it as long as he clung to the cross.
Among the statutes that I see to the Fair that stood up straight in my mind wuz Light and Darkness.
Past white statutes more beautiful than poet's dreams, risin' up from green velvet lawns or marble terraces.
As I said some of the pictures and statutes clung to my memory as if they'd been throwed at my mind so powerful that they jest stuck there and couldn't be dislodged even by all the later multitude of sights throwed over 'em.
There wuz some beautiful statutes too decoratin' this buildin', most on 'em I wuz proud to see wuz figgers of my own sect.
After the rebellion had been suppressed two statutes were passed, one for indemnity and the other for pardon.
At these meetings public business was done, charters were granted, and statutes were passed; assent was made to such feudal aids as money for the king's ransom in the case of William the Lion.
In some states the cities of the state are classified into two or more groups, according to population; the legislature is compelled to designate the group or groups to which statutes are to apply.
The Constitution does not give to the courts the power to declare state or Federal statutes invalid on the ground that they conflict with the Federal Constitution, but in the famous case of Marbury v.
The scope of the statutes is widening, and during the last half century several fields of the common law have been covered by statute.
The reviser supervises the preparation, printing, and binding of such compilations of particular portions of the statutes as may be ordered by the head of any state department.
Just as the Federal courts are the final interpreters of all domestic law, so the state courts have the power to pass upon the constitutionality of statutes enacted either by the state legislature or by local law- making bodies.
The proposition was not unknown even in colonial times, but the earlier state constitutions and statutes had almost invariably excluded women from the vote.
In about a dozen states certain types of cities are allowed to frame and amend their own charters, provided that such acts are not inconsistent with the constitution and statutes of the state.
To guard against the abuse of financial power there is in many commonwealths a tendency for state constitutions and statutes to limit the debt-incurring and franchise-granting powers of city councils.
The primary aim of the divorce laws should be to allow relief from a vicious and hopelessly wrecked union, but at the same time to prevent the misuse of the statutes by irresponsible and unscrupulous persons.
Madison in 1803, Chief Justice Marshall demonstrated that under the Constitution the Supreme Court must possess the power of declaring statutes null and void when they conflict with the fundamental law of the land.
What is the importance of the statutes as a source of state law?
Another important source of law is the statutes enacted by the state legislature.
The student was obliged to begin de novo with the old statutes and decisions, and to make up the science for himself by a difficult induction, which not many young men were able to do successfully.
Neither could the Writs be justified by inferences and constructions deduced from any previous statutes of Parliament.
Two statutes of the time of Charles II, empowering the court of Exchequer to issue writs such as those which were now denied, were adduced.
These statutes Mr. Gridley claimed as a warrant for the like usage in America.
What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Second Series, commencing with the Statutes of the now next Session, to be also continued until completed.
At the present time the records and statutes of the Dominion are always given in the two languages, and the same is true of all motions put by the Speaker.
The Indians, who number about thirty thousand in Manitoba and the Northwest, find their interests carefully guarded by treaties and statutes of Canada, which recognise their rights as wards of the Canadian Government.
Bodleian Library every day, and studied there as long as the time allowed by the Statutes would admit.
The stenographers and clerks were gone; alone in the library we got down the statutes and set to work.
In universities and colleges, the time during which instruction is regularly given to students, who are obliged by the statutes and laws of the institution to attend to the recitations, lectures, and other exercises.
Bachelors of Arts and Undergraduates are obliged by the statutes to wear their academical costume constantly in public, under a penalty of 6s.
The statutes of the institution had been chiefly adopted from those of European universities, where the footsteps of monarchical regulation were discerned even in the walks of science.
But the statutesof Trinity College, Cambridge, contain more remarkable rules, which are in theory still valid, although obsolete in fact.
They form a distinguishing mark in the costume of the proctors of the English universities, and at Cambridge, the questionists, on admission to their degrees, are by the statutes obliged to appear in them.
In American colleges, this degree is conferred on students who fulfil the conditions of the statutes of the law school to which they belong.
At the University of Virginia, the desserts which the students, according to the statutes of college, are allowed twice per week, are respectively called the Senior and Junior Bos.
Statutes passed in Pennsylvania have established the doctrine there, and dissolved any doubt as to its being in force in that state.
For many years the New York courts held that this doctrine was not in force there, but in 1893 the legislature repealed the provisions of the revised statutes on which these decisions rested and restored the ancient law.
They propose not to leave a single concealed private advantage in thestatutes concerning the duties that can possibly be eradicated without affecting the part of the business that is sound and legitimate and which we all wish to see promoted.
Any decently equipped lawyer can suggest to you statutes by which the whole business can be stopped.
Soccinius [Citation] bears witness of what manner these statutes of Arezzo are, as compared with those of the city of Florence, etc.
The repeal in 1663 of statutes against exporting bullion was carried in the interests of the East India Company, and apparently on a false theory; see it in Child, New Discourse, p.
Green goes on to speak of the earlier Statutes of Labourers as setting up the "terrible heritage of a pauper class" (p.
We have strict statutes and most biting laws, The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds, Which for this fourteen years we have let slip; Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey.
In France, the professors of grammar at Toulouse were directed by statutes of the University, dated 1328, to read to their pupils “De Historiis Alexandri.
With such statutes and customs as yours we should have had at least twice as many.
I have no doubt that there are laws and statutes of the kingdom both good and laudable, to keep the people within the bounds of decency.
In matters of this solemnity, the Nevada statutes require that one of the parties to the operation shall have resided for six months within the state.
But at Carson, the capital, a town that has contrived to superpose the Puritan aspect of a New England village on the vices of a Malay port, in this city Leilah learned that statutes so severe were not enacted for such as she.
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