Sentences with phrase «statutory laws»

The trial court ruled that under the common law (or judge - made laws, as opposed to statutory laws) of agency, the Brokerage, acting as an agent, could seek indemnification (or reimbursement) for its defense costs from its principal, namely the Sellers.

According to the Code of Virginia, which contains the State of Virginia Statutory laws, «mediation means a process in which a mediator facilitates communication between the parties and, without deciding the issues or imposing a solution on the parties, enables them to understand and to reach a mutually agreeable resolution to their dispute.»

Enforced statutory laws, complied with mandated standards, polices, procedures, and district protocol.

See to it that elections are handled in a proper and fair manner according to procedural and statutory laws

While there do exist statutory laws, such as the Domestic Relations Laws, that govern the legal subject matter of the state's Family Courts, the vast majority of the controlling law in this area has been established through precedential rulings and judicial review.

Despite all of these advances in statutory laws, though, pregnancy discrimination still occurs, unfortunately.

Our litigation and trial lawyers are experienced with the common and statutory laws involving the prospective liability of manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of products to purchasers, users, and bystanders for personal injury and property damage caused by alleged defects in those products.

Many states, including California, have specific statutory laws that allow you to create a Pet Trust to care for your domestic animals in the event of your death.

(This may apply to statutory laws also but that is a whole different area).

Oddly, because of specificity of many statutory laws, it weakens the effect of the more general theft / fraud laws.

The Ogun State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Akeem Ambali, has described his purported sack by Governor Ibikunle Amosun as «executive recklessness and abuse of all statutory laws».

As a result it has recently happened that the Constitutional Court had to issue a decree reminding the judges that there are statutory laws governing their decisions, so they can't just define «justice» as they feel like.

Twenty - six states allow citizens to gather signatures and place measures onto the ballot, while every legislature may place statutory laws before voters.

Much common and statutory law has been erected over the centuries on the possibility that some of your family may love you less than they love your possessions.

When you talk about fighting corruption, you're talking about the Office of the Attorney General and the courts and the statutory law enforcement agencies like the ICPC and EFCC, but, if you can follow me to the offices of some of these agencies, you will discover that we are not serious about fighting corruption.

A contested gubernatorial election is supposed to be decided by a joint session of the General Assembly, according to statutory law.

Cuomo would not say in the interview if he's willing to leave the cap on his veto pen and sign off a plan that includes a negotiated amendment, a statutory law and «fairer» lines.

These ideas represent a huge improvement for ballot access, compared to the statutory law.

It provides the latest and most interesting case law, statutory law, and current events from the world of employment law.

If any errors or defects should occur with LEGO Education products, you may claim remedy in accordance with statutory law on the sale of consumer goods.

Manuscripts and unpublished works are protected by common law and statutory law from the point of creation.

Many times in the past hundred years the Supreme Court has reaffirmed that constitutional law, and its various protections supersede any and all statutory law.

Contract law, like virtually all the laws in this nation (USA) are statutory law.

It was an exciting era, one where the common law of contracts played a greater role, and statutory law played a lesser role.

It provides the latest and most interesting case law, statutory law, and current events from the world of employment law.

If federal statutory law expressly commands that all covered federal employees shall be «free from any discrimination based on... race,» does that forbid the federal government from adopting race - based affirmative action plans?

He proceeded to explain to me about the law of contract, but he also added something about statutory law.

He asked me if I was aware that all statutory law is based upon the principle of consent.

It is a matter of statutory law.

America has two parallel legal authorities — statutory law (that which is enacted by the legislature) and common law (judge - made law that protects fundamental individual rights, liberties, and social practices that have evolved over time).

In a paean to the virtues of common law relative to statutory law, an essay published in 2016 by the Cato Institute observes that the «imperative to please constituencies means that the information legislatures codify often comes from well - organized interests with substantial resources.

In this case UVa presented a clear way out based on existing case and statutory law in VA..

Statutory law is almost as sensitive to initial conditions as case law.

In the meantime, we have only limited legal precedents, statutory law, and regulations to guide companies hosting 3D applications, businesses establishing presences in virtual worlds, and users.

For example, New Jersey statutory law permits the State Registrar to reject any chosen names or surnames that contain an obscenity.

The Uniform Law Commission provides states with non-partisan, well - conceived and well - drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.

When I began my teaching career, at Georgetown, I taught a traditional legal writing course with writing assignments drawn from a variety of doctrinal areas, paying more attention to skills I wanted to teach — e.g. analyzing statutes, using elements tests, analogizing and distinguishing cases, synthesizing case and statutory law, etc. — than to integrating any particular area of doctrine.

Prior statutory law neither favored nor disfavored joint custody but case law disfavored joint custody.

Case law helps interpret statutory law.

In addition, a more specific statutory law to address cybercrime was introduced with the 2011 Computer Misuse Act.

Researching statutory law was easier back in the days when there wasn't much law to sift through.

The body of statutory law, caselaw, evidentiary law, and procedural law is too vast for a judge to expect that the judge knows it all.

«Sexual assault» is created by specific statutes, whereas assault and battery are defined by common law (though are also codified as crimes under statutory law).

This turns out to be much easier than it seems naively, because the vast majority of statutory law and regulations are relevant to only a very modest number of people and is subject to only very slight case law interpretation.

The hard part is not statutory law, which is consolidated in the United States Code, or regulatory law, which is consolidated in the Code of Federal Regulations.

Senior U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, ruling in a case brought against the Bush administration by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, issued a 44 - page opinion finding that the National Security Agency's wiretap program violates the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, the separation of powers doctrine, statutory law and the Administrative Procedures Act.

Even within non-criminal, non-private law, non-procedural statutes, the case law concerns a very small subset of overall statutory law.

JS: In the litigation arena where I practice, aside from predictive outcomes and online dispute resolution, lawyers can expect to see programming that allows their smart devices to synthesize Complaints or Answers in a matter of minutes and provide them with an almost immediate analysis of relevant case or statutory law.

As well, most people don't seem to understand that most statutory law (I think it's fair to say though I concede I could well be wrong) flows from common law in some way shape or form.

The statutory law, the judge - made law and the specific situation of the contract agreement have an influence when we discuss legal issues.