statute book
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Also expected to make the statute book is a bill overhauling property law in England and Wales, giving more rights to people who own leasehold properties, where the building’s freehold is owned by someone else.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
The main opposition Labour Party said it agreed it was a “reasonable” approach to take some measures off the statute book but that lawmakers would study the detail of the proposals.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2021
It does not exist in the statute book.
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2020
Dr Price himself had died before the new law had entered the statute book - but his cremation was carried out on the same hillside above Llantrisant with 20,000 mourners in attendance.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2020
In 1867 he would have been a hardy prophet who would have foretold the speedy downfall of the Irish Episcopal Establishment; and the Act of Disestablishment was placed upon the statute book in 1869.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Robbins, Alfred Farthing
