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- noun Plural form of
statute .
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Examples
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SCHECK: That is almost certainly true because, unfortunately, across this country there are what they call statutes of limitations or time limits on when a defendant can file a motion based on newly discovered evidence of innocence.
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Heading our statutes is the following declaration: The
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Facility in working with statutes is a skill acquired by long practice.
Current Affairs 2010
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Facility in working with statutes is a skill acquired by long practice.
Apprentice Kagan 2010
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Facility in working with statutes is a skill acquired by long practice.
Stromata Blog 2010
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I take it this refers to statutes 18-6-101 through 18-6-105, which bill 1256 would have repealed.
Jason Salzman: Why Would Anti-Abortion Activists Oppose a Bill Making It a Crime to Kill an Unborn Child? Jason Salzman 2011
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Do you believe that the use of prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, the necessity defense, executive clemency and any other mechanisms that are available to obviate or circumvent criminal statutes is unethical in all cases, without exception? and, uh, things like executive clemency are all firmly within the law.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi 2009
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Facility in working with statutes is a skill acquired by long practice.
Law 2010
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Oh, and to disagree with #22 above, “gang activity” is not protected by the First Amendment because (I think) the way that it is defined in statutes is “gathering in furtherance of a crime.”
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I take it this refers to statutes 18-6-101 through 18-6-105, which bill 1256 would have repealed.
Jason Salzman: Why Would Anti-Abortion Activists Oppose a Bill Making It a Crime to Kill an Unborn Child? Jason Salzman 2011
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