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  • McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state.†  (source)
    statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • I take the blatant disregard of such a statute quite seriously, Emperor Kaito.†  (source)
    statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • Go shopping, unless all the shops had gotten their statutory ramps in place.†  (source)
    statutory = from law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
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  • Some states changed their statutes to create more hopeful sentences for child offenders.†  (source)
    statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • Nevertheless, and quite frankly, the Deadman's Statute creates a ...shady legal area.†  (source)
    Statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • Statutory rape.†  (source)
    Statutory = from law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • By old English statutory law, the whale is declared "a royal fish."†  (source)
    statutory law = law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.†  (source)
    statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • But these doctrines existed more on paper than on plantations, just as Pakistani laws exist in the statute books but don't impede brothel owners who choose to eliminate troublesome girls.†  (source)
    statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • Jody's been accused of statutory rape.†  (source)
    statutory = from law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • If retaliation is your fear, know this—I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.†  (source)
    statutes = laws developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • Ms. Leven, the statute requires that a defendant charged with first-degree murder-multiple counts, at that-be held without bail.†  (source)
    statute = a law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
  • His self-absorption and obsession lead him to cruelty, statutory rape, murder, and the destruction of several lives.†  (source)
    statutory = from law developed by governmental groups in contrast to common law (based on custom and precedent)
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