written law
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That’s a paradox crime fiction has a unique opportunity to explore by posing questions through storytelling about the contrast between written law and ethical justice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
But the court was told there were differences between the written law and the guidance from the secretary of state for the interpretation of that law.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2023
Despite its name, the 60-day rule is a general principle rather than a written law or regulation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Justice demands to be immediate and unconditional, and it can be neither of those things; justice depends on written law, but is in contradiction with it.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2018
The laws by which the decisions were regulated were supposed to live in the breasts of the magistrates themselves; nor was there any written law during the flourishing times of Sparta.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
