Sentences with phrase «merely codifying»

Within the past few years a bill to make grandparent visitation more uniform ended up greatly weakening grandparent visitation rights while a bill to encourage joint custody ended up merely codifying case law without favoring joint custody.

In October 2014, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in State v. Paul that the 2012 law was not a «jury nullification law» and «construed RSA 519:23 - a as merely codifying existing law, rather than conferring on the jury a right to judge or nullify the law...» Trial judges were permitted to use a «Wentworth instruction» derived from State v. Wentworth, 118 N.H. 833 (1978)

Religions merely codified already existing morals.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi quickly jumped into the fray, insisting that «no provision of the SAFE Act... has been rolled back or altered due to this memorandum,» and that it merely codified what the State Police have long been saying — the technology for the ammunition - sale database is not yet ready, and won't be for the foreseeable future.

Most of these changes merely codify existing case law or rules of civil procedure.

The Commission notes that such an amendment would not alter, but merely codify the common law position on this issue.

Not exact matches

Religions are merely ways to codify those values.

In any case, we are concerned here with the presuppositions of Old Testament law in its developed, codified form; and by creation faith we mean not merely the explanation of ultimate origins.

In recent interviews Cuomo has hedged on his support of the RHA and said he merely wishes to «codify Roe vs. Wade.»

Also, codified statutes and regulations are well organized enough that one can usually figure out which parts are likely to be relevant merely by looking at the table of contents and you can do even better if from experience you know where a few regularly important portions whose location in the table of contents is not facially obvious or whose location is counterintuitive from the face of the table of contents is known.

Substantive legislation (eg the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973), and the Children Act 1989) creates new law; but it may also codify or confirm the common law, eg Senior Courts Act 1981, s 37 merely confirms the High Court's inherent jurisdiction generally to grant injunctions: by contrast MCA 1973, s 37 (2) creates a new jurisdiction to restrain disposal).

Gen. Martins countered that the military commissions statute did not «create» new crimes but merely «codified» commonly accepted war crimes.

He travels to country Y where action A is legal (officially legal, that is codified as being legal, not merely tolerated) and...