How To Use Unwritten law In A Sentence
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In the case of convents in university towns, especially Paris and the Roman Curia (Avignon, afterwards Rome) the nomination belonged to the general or the general chapter; and there appears to have been an unwritten law that at Cambridge, Louvain, and other universities the priorship should be filled by the bachelor who in the course of the year was to take his degree as Master in Divinity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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There seems to be an unwritten law that football songs should be comic or humorous, or at least not too serious.
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It was an unwritten law that Bridget, for she was most comely, was always the apple of every unmarried man's eye.
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Goar (Euchologium, Venice, 1730, 175) says that the Greeks of his day were allowed by an unwritten law to eat fish, eggs, snails, and such-like viands on xerophagy days.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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They only saw their duty to resist oppression, to protect the weak, to vindicate the profound but unwritten Law of Nations, to testify to truth and justice and mercy among men.
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It's a day to remember that keeping one half of humankind under life-long subjugation through unwritten laws and warped thinking is a waste of talent and human resource.
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i dont know what im gonna wear im gonna buy tickets for phil for his 21st to see either lagwagon or unwritten law and mxpx - i'll let him decide i dont mind going to either ... why are they called polka dots??? hmmm .... i've seen it all befores - i've known it all along
Anasthesia Diary Entry
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The craft still had an ample amount of fuel but it was an unwritten law of astronautics that fuel should never be wasted if there was some other way to reach the desired destination-and by this manoeuvre Laughlin was avoiding the use of the retropulsion.
Division 3
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(Lord ARTHUR and I frequently do not speak for a week unless someone is present) -- but I do not think these things should be made public, and besides, it is an unwritten law amongst "smart" people to avoid subjects that "chafe" -- which sounds like an anachronism -- whatever that means!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892
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Regardless of whether or not is is true it does point to one of the unwritten laws of football: local derbies are a bit special.
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We will come to that in the later arguments but this is all in the realm of the unwritten law.
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There seems to be an unwritten law that football songs should be comic or humorous, or at least not too serious.
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The custom society grows the custom, tradition and unwritten law.
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A corporation must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is unconscionable within the meaning of the unwritten law - section 51AB.
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After the heat and "drouth" we could have loitered in that pleasant shade; but we were due at the Red Lilies "second night out"; and it being one of the unwritten laws of a "nigger-hunt" to keep appointments -- "the other chaps worrying a bit if you don't turn up" -- soon after four o'clock we were out in the blazing heat again, following the river now along its higher flood-bank through grassy plains and open forest land.
We of the Never-Never
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common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States
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We will come to that in the later arguments but this is all in the realm of the unwritten law.
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And, after all, she only voiced the general opinion of the school, which, by an unwritten law, had established a calm imperturbation as the height of good breeding.
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
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an unwritten law
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The distraught father killed him, and used the unwritten law as his defense.
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A few older buildings in sight, such as the palace of the maharajas, respect the ancient unwritten law that no building should be higher than one of Kerala's millions of coconut palms.
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It was founded in order to fight the unwritten law on the job market that discriminates against older employees.