Much of the documentation of this company was destroyed in a sixteenth-century fire, but there exists a copy of their reformed statutes, adopted in 1488.
At present the only certainty is that privatization statutes were applied unevenly, over the course of decades, with inconsistent results.
As a matter of fact, statutes unaffected by foreign influence in one way or another probably form the exception rather than the rule.
In principle statutes might be limited by the natural law; but in effect they were supreme.
Various early works are accorded particular standing by virtue of the absence of statutes or other written sources covering a particular area.
Enforcement of the opium statutes and rules followed a similar balanced approach.
The authorities had compounded their unpopularity among radicals by appearing to draw back from reform after publishing the emancipation statutes.
Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way.
