0 the principle that laws can stop having any legal force when they have not been used for a long time --
As it stands, it is discriminatory and has almost fallen into desuetude.
The right was won, however, although it fell into desuetude because no one took any notice of petitions.
It is in desuetude because there has been no passenger service from the station for 23 years.
Clearly therefore the procedure has fallen in to desuetude.
This clause was drafted in 1944 but never used, and it is generally regarded as having fallen into desuetude.
The much-mentioned desuetude has a positive element of active virtue about it.
They have the doctrine which goes by the technical name of desuetude.
They will lose those powers—which indeed have fallen into considerable desuetude—which they still legally possess.
