Sentences with phrase «of uncodified»

U.S. federal law consists of: 52 Titles of the United States Code (some of which have more than one volume) and a smattering of uncodified statutes...

52 Titles of the United States Code (some of which have more than one volume) and a smattering of uncodified statutes that probably would take up one or two additional books.

The situation was as partisan as the recent US shutdown has been and Kerr was between a rock and hard place of uncodified law («conventions») of which the main criticism against Kerr was the lack of honest prior warning given to Whitlam.

A codified constitution is a single document; states that do not have such a document have uncodified, but not entirely unwritten, constitutions, since much of an uncodified constitution is usually written in laws such as the Basic Laws of Israel and the Parliament Acts of the United Kingdom.

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The very form of words hints at a codifier's agenda: the constitution is already uncodified; who needs a «map» to stay the course?

We will include works on constitutional theory as well as on the empirical issues that underlie constitutions — particularly those that are important to uncodified constitutions like that of the UK.

But all have some sort of replacement, sometimes unwritten, sometimes written but uncodified.

Uncodified constitutions largely lack protection against amendment by the government of the time.

We are intimately familiar with the rules of evidence, both statutory and uncodified, and understand the rationale for the counterintuitive principle expressed in Browne v Dunn.

Secondly, by injecting the uncodified principles of the common law into the division of family property, the certainty created by the Family Law Act — such as it is — is substantially undermined.

This is not to say that there is no codified TK but to claim that the overwhelming body of TK is uncodified know - how.

Knowledge as a public good is found in different levels of codification ranging from systematic and detailed documentation to uncodified practices held by a single individual or within webs of social interactions.

This uncodified judicial definition of «necessaries of life» has broadened in scope over the years to reflect society's changing values.

The purpose of a post-Norman jury, in the relatively undeveloped, uncodified, legal landscape, was twofold.