Example sentences of "[noun] for the proposition [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of Instan seems to be authority for the proposition that a common-law duty was imposed upon the defendant to continue to care for her aunt , having once undertaken this responsibility.55 It would seem to follow from the fact that a relationship has to be created for the duty to arise that if the relationship ceases by one party releasing and absolving the other of his obligations , the duty also ceases . |
| 2 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that Lord Castlehaven 's case is authority for the proposition that a man can be liable for rape of his wife But Castlehaven was indicted as praesens , auxilians and confortans for holding his wife down to facilitate her rape by ‘ one of his minions . ’ |
| 4 | However , the Yates decision should not be regarded as authority for the proposition that a collection of individually non-confidential items of information can not be the subject of confidentiality where the confidentiality lies in the fact that they are collected together . |
| 5 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |