statute of westminster in a sentence

Examples

1. The Statute of Westminster 1285 kept estates within families : tenants only held property for life and were unable to sell the property.
2. Thus in 1931, the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster, giving legal recognition to the autonomy of Canada and other Dominions.
3. Full legislative autonomy was granted by the Statute of Westminster, 1931, passed by the United Kingdom and ratified by the Canadian parliament.
4. Although the Statute of Westminster 1931 declared that the Parliament of Canada had extraterritorial jurisdiction, the provincial legislatures did not achieve similar status.
5. Adopting the Statute of Westminster, so that Australia became able to amend applicable imperial law, avoided a potential repetition of this situation.
6. In the 1944 Speech from the Throne the Governor-General announced the Fraser government's intention to adopt the Statute of Westminster.
7. Australia became officially autonomous in both internal and external affairs with the passage of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act on 9 October 1942.
8. The Irish Free State became from a British perspective legislatively independent with the passage in the British parliament of the Statute of Westminster 1931.
9. "' The Distress Act 1285 "'( 13 Edw 1 c 37 ) was an Statute of Westminster the Second.
10. "' The Commons Act 1285 "'( 13 Edw 1 c 46 ) was an Statute of Westminster the Second.