statutory enactment

This statutory enactment established mandatory minimum sentencing for several crimes.

We believe it would take an additional specific statutory enactment by the Missouri General Assembly to do that.

The theory is that the English monarch's claim to treasure trove was based on a statutory enactment which replaced the finder's original right.

In Gandhi's own words, "civil disobedience is civil breach of unmoral statutory enactments."

In some cases common law defences are superseded by statutory enactment, for example duress, self-defence and as mentioned above, extreme intoxication.

Rules of interpretation or construction depend chiefly on decisions of the courts, to a smaller extent on statutory enactment.

Some of the states have now fairly complete statutory enactments concerning labour disturbances, while g others have little or no legislation of this class.

The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht, but moral and political assent.

It grows out of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the common law, and statutory enactments which may vary between jurisdictions.

Trespass is not now criminal in England except by special statutory enactment, e.g. the old statutes against forcible entry, the game acts, and the private acts of many railway companies.

Some of the tax exemptions are based on statutory enactments, others (like the non-taxability of lottery winnings) are based on the non-statutory common law concept of "income".

But we are suggesting that it is not before the Court with this particular preamble, that it would take a separate statutory enactment on the part of the state of Missouri to do that.

In 1868, the Superintendents' Association adopted his "Project of a Law," which recommended statutory enactment to secure the rights of the mentally ill and define the civil and criminal relationships of the insane.

The statutory enactments of the various states concerning labour disturbances are in part re-enactments of the rules of common law and in part more or less departures from or additions to the established principles.

It is "entrenched," meaning that its provisions overbear any ordinary statutory enactments which the courts find to be inconsistent with it, in accordance with the constitutional authority of Marbury v. Madison, the case which established the principle in the USA, the first modern state to have an entrenched constitution.

Kevin Mannix, the state legislator behind Measure 40, shepherded many of its provisions through the Legislature as statutory enactments (in Senate Bill 936 of 1997) while Measure 40 was being considered in the courts, placing many of the constitutional provisions of Measure 40 into statutory law.