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Letter "S" » statute
«The flaw in the statute [is] that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.»
«To make a new concept fit into an old statute makes tortured law with tortured results.»
Author: Harvey R. Sorkow
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statute
«So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.»
«This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office; / Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.»
«Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.»
«So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.»
«Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.»
«PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accentuate, arbitrament, dirigible, elevates, fortuitous, practice of law, precedents, previous, simplifying, statute, The Trial
«The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.»
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