Example sentences of "court [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 2 | In fact , there is no necessity for the courts to abandon a concern with substantive outcomes entirely , since , despite the above strictures , a judicial evaluation of the likely profit consequences of a particular course of action would not be impossible , within fairly broad limits . |
| 3 | Magistrates made a commitment order against him and asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest . |
| 4 | Indeed Jacob values settlements sufficiently to suggest that a power , or perhaps even a duty , should be imposed on the court to promote a settlement or compromise between the parties . |
| 5 | The circumstances in that case which prompted the court to establish a duty centred on ( 1 ) the nature of the face-to-face transaction ( ie the family character of the company ) , ( 2 ) the high degree of inside information which the insiders possessed , and ( 3 ) the actual conduct of the takeover . |
| 6 | An application can be made to the court to obtain a ruling by issuing an originating summons under RSC Ord 7 , seeking a declaration in the terms of the meaning desired . |
| 7 | English merchants felt confident that money could be made out of settlements there , if only they could acquire enough influence at court to secure a charter to launch them . |
| 8 | The better view is that this does not allow the court to rewrite a clause : for instance , if the court decides that a clause limiting liability to £100 is unreasonable but that a £200 limit would be reasonable , it can not substitute the higher figure ( see Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , especially per Lord Bridge ) . |
| 9 | He explained his problem as jurors were being sworn in at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to try a man accused of assault . |
| 10 | You are hereby served with an application by your husband/wife which asks the Court to grant a decree of divorce . |
| 11 | A local authority which ignores this principle of good practice or fails to comply with its duty to provide services may find it difficult to persuade a court to grant a care or supervision order . |
| 12 | In Att. -Gen. for New South Wales v. Trethowan ( P.C. , 1932 ) a decision of the Australian Supreme Court to grant a declaration that two Bills passed by the New South Wales State Legislature were invalid and grant an injunction restraining the Bills from being presented to the Governor for assent was upheld . |
| 13 | He appeared in court to answer a charge of drink-driving — not , it transpired , for the first time . |
| 14 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 15 | The circumstances that justify a court in rescinding a bankruptcy order are closely analogous to the circumstances which enable the court to annul a bankruptcy order ( see below ) . |
| 16 | The power of the court to disallow a mortgagee 's costs sought to be added to the mortgage security is a power that does not derive from section 51 but from the power of courts of equity to fix the terms on which redemption will be allowed . |
| 17 | A group of travellers are going to court to challenge a council 's right to move them on . |
| 18 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 19 | This is an action requesting the court to require a minister — or local authority — to do what they are required to do by statute . |
| 20 | Added to which , the Panel has legal power to apply to the court to require a company to change its accounts if they do not comply with recognised standards . |
| 21 | AJOURNALIST was yesterday ordered by the High Court to identify a source who gave him commercially sensitive information . |
| 22 | The one possible exception to this general rule used to be the jurisdiction of the court to quash a decision taken within the jurisdiction of the decision taker where an error of law appeared on the face of the record : Rex v. Northumberland Compensation Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Shaw [ 1952 ] 1 K.B . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) ( a ) If on the pre-trial review the district judge has ordered that the hearing be adjourned generally and certificates of readiness ( with an estimate of length of hearing ) be lodged by all parties before the matter is set down , then it will not be regarded as practicable by the court to fix a date of hearing until the certificates or readiness are in fact provided . |
| 24 | In a county court , unless a hearing date has already been fixed , the plaintiff should request the court to fix a day for the hearing within six months of the close of pleadings ( CCR Ord 17 , r11(3) ( d ) ) . |
| 25 | Going to court to resolve a dispute is rather like going to war . |
| 26 | The ruling came after BSDI asked the court to postpone a hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction against it made by USL . |
| 27 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 28 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 29 | Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act . |
| 30 | It is possible therefore for the court to appoint a solicitor even though a guardian has been appointed . |