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Though an indifferent judge, his _Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I., cap. 27, with an appendix, being a proposal for new-modelling the Statutes_ (1766), had a high reputation among historians and constitutional antiquaries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Title 11, chapter 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding article 8, toread:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010
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Section 23 – 212, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
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Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Executive Order No. 10300 of November 1, 1951, entitle "Providing for the Administration of the Mutual Security Act of 1951 and Related Statutes", is hereby amended to read as follows:
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St. Nazianz was organized as kind of membership community, with a constitution called the Statutes consisting of 29 sections.
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The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress.
Now Available from GPO: Statutes at Large 109th Congress, 1st Session « ResourceShelf 2008
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Westerne dozens, Cottons, certaine clothes called Statutes, and others called Cardinal whites, and Cauleskins which were well sold in Sicilie, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In thus begging the question he had in mind the so-called Statutes of Exemption which, in protecting from impressment certain persons or classes of persons, proceeded on the assumption, so dear to the Sea Lords, that the Crown possessed the right to press all.
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Attorney of the United States, by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by Sec. 1768 of the Revised Statutes, which is a reenactment of the law of which I have just spoken.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865
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