31.   If animal rights activists and their lawyers succeed in overturning the legal principle that animals are property, then people cannot own animals.

32.   One question that may have to be settled, the title companies said, is whether the state property is protected by a legal principle known as sovereign immunity.

33.   Representative Edward Markey, Democrat of Malden, said that there are many established legal principles that should be extended quickly to the Internet.

34.   Recently the death penalty lost one and won one, raising anew the question of whether the issue is about legal principles or politics -- or both.

35.   Public confidence in the outcome of these trials demands a return to established American legal principles, including independent court review.

36.   Some countries insist, as a general legal principle, that their citizens can be prosecuted for breaking national laws abroad.

37.   State officials disagree, citing a legal principle they say protects the state from such court judgments.

38.   Such prosecutions give vitality to the legal principle that there is no statute of limitations on murder.

39.   The controlling legal principles are not in dispute.

40.   The courtroom cameras actually helped educate an enthralled audience about legal principles, the admissibility of evidence and the maneuverings of lawyers.