the judge will decide if no law is already written regarding the issue
You can use the phrase "in accordance" to show that something is following a particular rule, guideline, or agreement. For example, "The project was completed in accordance with the client's specifications."
The talks are all important in themselves and substantive in nature.
Yes, a clause or phrase may begin a sentence."As per our agreement, the company bought back my stock options."(better might be in accordance with)
There will be no substantive changes to our contract until next year. Please attend the meeting because several substantive issues up for discussion.
Obama is in the consent of the governed.
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator." (Adolf Hitler)
Accordance is another way of saying 'go with' or 'link', so you could say for example: In accordance with the previous document, we should take this initiative.
My friends and I made an agreement.
"A substantive noun or a substantive is . . . a name which can stand by itself, in distinction from an adjective noun or an adjective. It is the name of an object of thought, whether perceived by the senses or the understanding. . . . Substantive and noun are, in common use, convertible terms."(William Chauncey Fowler, English Grammar. Harper & Brothers, 1855)
We made an agreement to never fight again.
The corrected sentence should have verb-subject agreement as well as pronoun-antecedent agreement with no misplaced modifiers to be grammatically right.
He nodded in agreement.