| 单词 | reception statute |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreception statute reception statute n. U.S. Law a statute passed by an American state after Independence which provides that the common law of England be received as binding in that state, subject to repeal and local interpretation. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative Ragmanc1400 Statute of Sewers1571 Poynings' Act1613 Poynings' Law1622 Statute of Limitations1641 Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647 new tables1664 Habeas Corpus Act1705 Judicature Act1782 continuance act1863 stay-law1880 ripper1885 reception statute1931 thirty-year rule1966 sunshine law1968 1931 Columbia Law Rev. 31 416 The so-called reception statutes vary in form, in the date chosen as a deadline, and as to the implications of the extent of reception. 1956 E. H. Pollack Fund. Legal Research i. 10 The ‘reception’ statutes, enacted by most American states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, gave special recognition to the English common law and statutes..as of 1607, the date of the earliest English settlement at Jamestown. 2007 Duke Jrnl. Gender Law & Policy (Nexis) Jan. 681 By virtue of its reception statute, North Carolina has merely adopted the common law as it stood in England at the time North Carolina began writing its own laws. < as lemmas |
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