Example sentences of "to [art] defendant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose now that the Chancellor has decided in favour of the petitioner , and has held that the land which legally belongs to the defendant ought to belong , or , ‘ in conscience ’ , in equity , morally , does belong to the petitioner . |
| 2 | Thus stated , there is no reference to the defendant 's intention or awareness of the risks : the fact that D has chosen to commit rape , robbery , or another serious offence , and has caused death thereby , is held to constitute sufficient moral grounds for placing the killing in the highest category . |
| 3 | The English law of manslaughter exhibits a tension between various principles of fairness to the defendant and the significance of the harm caused . |
| 4 | a private action brought in respect of an odour nuisance caused by stables belonging to the defendant . |
| 5 | The choice of subsection is of practical importance as defences are available to the defendant in respect of proceedings brought under s.92(1) ( c ) and ( d ) but not otherwise . |
| 6 | It also follows that the defences provided by s.94(4) and s.94(5) and s.95 of that Act will still be available to the defendant . |
| 7 | Any surplus is paid to the defendant — unless the under sheriff knows of other writs of fi . |
| 8 | Therefore , questions put to the defendant such as ‘ Have you ever passed a Ministry of Transport test for this class of vehicle ? ’ and/or ‘ Do you hold or have you ever held a driving licence for this class of vehicle ? ’ should prove useful . |
| 9 | This can be done by putting a suitable question to the defendant and recording his reply . |
| 10 | A question to the effect ‘ Have you any other licence for this vehicle or have you ever passed a Ministry of Transport test for this vehicle ? ’ can be put to the defendant and entered in the officer 's statement of evidence together with the negative reply . |
| 11 | Failing an admission a question to the defendant such as ‘ Where did you intend to go when you got into your car ? ’ or ‘ What were you trying to do ? ’ etc. may help to prove that he had an intention to drive as discussed at point ( B ) 2 ante . |
| 12 | In practice a question to the defendant on the lines of ‘ Is there any reason why you are n't wearing your seat belt ? would cater for the cases where he or the vehicle is exempt . |
| 13 | To prove the latter part of this point the offence could be pointed out to the defendant , e.g. ’ it is an offence not to be able to show two white lights to the front of your motor car during the hours of darkness ' . |
| 14 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 15 | ( b ) The duty of a criminal judge is not to determine the degree of moral responsibility of a delinquent but his material guilt or physical responsibility , and this once proven , to fix the form of social preservation best suited to the defendant according to the anthropological category to which he belongs . |
| 16 | IN THE words of defence counsel James Hunt QC , the trial of Allitt at Nottingham Crown Court has been ‘ unprecedented and without equal ’ , not least due to the defendant 's absence for much of the three-month hearing . |
| 17 | Whatever method of service is used , the object is the giving of information to the defendant . |
| 18 | In some contexts , and particularly where the document to be served originated abroad , an informal mode of service is used ; typically the document is passed to a local police station , and is either taken round to the defendant 's address or the defendant is invited to call in to collect it . |
| 19 | The law of that state as to the service of documents originating abroad may permit documents to be sent directly to the defendant without the use of any local official acting as intermediary , or it may insist on the documents passing through , for example , the court having jurisdiction at the defendant 's place of residence , the parquet attached to that court , or a huissier practising in the relevant area . |
| 20 | Official modes , such as the diplomatic channel , are more likely to be associated with communications which must pass between officials in the two countries , whilst the postal channel may be more appropriate for communications between huissiers or directly to the defendant . |
| 21 | the document was actually delivered to the defendant or to his residence by another method provided for by this Convention , |
| 22 | It will be noted that Article 15(1) ( b ) is satisfied if the document is actually delivered to the defendant or to his residence . |
| 23 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in the first group of cases there is a greater likelihood of the necessary information being passed rapidly to the defendant , and that will in turn meet the objective of the Convention 's authors and also the standards set by ‘ due process ’ tests . |
| 24 | In all these cases , the relevant legal provisions required there to be onward transmission of the documents to the defendant . |
| 25 | If this argument has any substance , it lies in the fact that service on an involuntary agent attracts no legal as opposed to practical requirement that there be any supplemental transmission of information to the defendant abroad , whereas supplemental transmission of the actual documents served is required to be effected by the huissier initiating notification au parquet and by a Secretary of State on whom documents are served under the similar United States practice . |
| 26 | The three Justices found that the Convention embodied a substantive standard , directed at the purpose of the Convention which was seen as being to ensure timely notice to the defendant . |
| 27 | The interpretation of this would appear to be within the competence of the state of origin , and it is to be hoped that an interpretation reflecting the realities of the position would always be adopted ; what is important to the defendant is prompt access to the information he needs in order to judge how to respond to the current move by the other party . |
| 28 | Galliher the court ordered the defendant to disclose full particulars of a flat in Paris ( which was thought to contain valuable pictures and objets d'art allegedly transferred to the defendant in fraud of the creditors of another ) , to verify the information on affidavit , and to permit a named French avocat to inspect the contents of the flat . |
| 29 | The father was a busy man , he said , engaged in work of national importance , in the child 's best interest he would give the custody to the defendant 's mother . |
| 30 | Where visitors have contributed to the injuries they have sustained due to the defendant 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , then the damages to which they are entitled may be reduced . |