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All securities issued in connection with the Private Placement will be subject to a statutory hold period expiring four months and one day from issuance in accordance with applicable securities legislation.
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Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
If convicted, Langstaff would face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
That group found 342 large corporations that paid a cumulative effective tax rate of 14.1% over five years, well short of the statutory corporate tax rate of 21%.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
In February, Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois attempted to expedite approval in the Senate for her version of the IVF legislation, which would provide a federal statutory right to IVF treatments, overruling any state's restrictions.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
Haitian, Venezuelan, and Honduran refugees and asylum seekers were arriving in large numbers by plane and bus to Massachusetts, the only state with a statutory right to housing.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
After all, the technical legal issue before the court was not the Second Amendment and gun rights but rather a question of statutory meaning: do guns modified with bump stocks count as machine guns?
—Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
Ten states and the District of Columbia have given this understanding statutory force.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
The top statutory tax rate has declined from 51% in 1986 to 21% today, according to the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
If convicted, Langstaff would face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
That group found 342 large corporations that paid a cumulative effective tax rate of 14.1% over five years, well short of the statutory corporate tax rate of 21%.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
In February, Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois attempted to expedite approval in the Senate for her version of the IVF legislation, which would provide a federal statutory right to IVF treatments, overruling any state's restrictions.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
Haitian, Venezuelan, and Honduran refugees and asylum seekers were arriving in large numbers by plane and bus to Massachusetts, the only state with a statutory right to housing.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
After all, the technical legal issue before the court was not the Second Amendment and gun rights but rather a question of statutory meaning: do guns modified with bump stocks count as machine guns?
—Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
Ten states and the District of Columbia have given this understanding statutory force.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
The top statutory tax rate has declined from 51% in 1986 to 21% today, according to the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
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statutory
adjective
stat·u·to·ry
ˈstach-ə-ˌtōr-ē 
-ˌtȯr-
1
: of or relating to statutes
2
: regulated by statute
3
: punishable by statute
Legal Definition
statutory
adjective
stat·u·to·ry
ˈsta-chə-ˌtōr-ē
1
: of or relating to a statute or statutes
a statutory provision
2
: enacted, created, regulated, or defined by statute
a statutory presumption
a statutory insider
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