Article III.—Can custom obtain the force of law?

It would seem that custom cannot obtain force of law, nor abolish a law.

Certain decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court can acquire legal force.

In order to become law, the bill needs to pass a second and third reading.

Your document needs to have force of law, either in Belgium or abroad.

The code must be approved by the president to become law.

Her influence in the home is to be paramount; her word, law.

The Convention will have to be ratified by the Indian Parliament to become law.

They must be adopted by a provincial or territorial jurisdiction to take effect.

It now must pass three readings in the Knesset plenum.

For a law to pass, it must go through three readings in the Knesset.

Article 17: The nationality status of persons who have acquired or lost Chinese nationality before the promulgation of this Law shall remain valid.

The nationality status of persons who have acquired or lost Chinese nationality before the promulgation of this Law shall remain valid.

Article 17 The nationality status of persons who have acquired or lost Chinese nationality before the promulgation of this Law shall remain valid.

For the next twenty years their word would be law in the Marseille underworld.