statute

Example Sentences

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“It violates what the statute says as a matter of text and history, and just how it’s been understood since the Civil War basically.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

But the statute of limitations on manslaughter, the charge most police officials and experts believed was appropriate in this case, had long expired by then.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

That is partly because the 301 statute was written to address the practices of “ ‘a foreign country,’ using the singular,” Wolff wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Justice Jackson provides a brief history of the compassionate release statute in her Fernandez dissent.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

She started organizing information into carefully labeled folders: one about cells, another about cancer, another full of definitions of legal terms like statute of limitations and patient confidentiality.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot