Example sentences of "lay down [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords upheld the law laid down in West 's case , Lord Scarman stating at p189 : |
| 2 | ( 5 ) Wherever , in ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above , the order requires one or other court to consider whether it ought to try the case or whether it ought to transfer it ( pursuant to the powers of transfer under ss 40(2) , 41(1) or 42(2) of the 1984 Act ) that court must have regard to the criteria laid down in art 7(5) and set out at the start of Chapter 13 . |
| 3 | Yet , said Mr. Watkinson , Lord Bridge can hardly have had it in mind that the private law right which he plainly regarded as coming into existence when the duty laid down in section 65(2) arose could give rise to a public law duty as to the manner in which the private law right was to be satisfied . |
| 4 | This rather limited list of excuses , laid down in section 39(2) of the 1944 Act , must be regarded as exhaustive . |
| 5 | The rule laid down in article 6(1) therefore applies where the actions brought against the various defendants are related when the proceedings are instituted , that is to say where it is expedient to hear and determine them together in order to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings . |
| 6 | The second is that one applies the conflict rule laid down in article 7(3) itself on the assumption that its conditions have been satisfied . |
| 7 | The court reached that conclusion after holding that the quota system established by Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 constituted a derogation from the general rule of equal conditions of access to fishery resources laid down in article 2(1) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 : see paragraph 24 of the judgment , at pp. 221–222 . |
| 8 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 9 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 10 | I do not think that any hard and fast rule is laid down in Chamberlain 's case . |
| 11 | The submission was however inconsistent with the law as stated by this House in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Sinclair [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 64 , 81–92 , in which it was made clear in the speech of Lord Ackner ( with which the remainder of the Appellate Committee agreed ) that , under the provisions of the Extradition Act 1870 , the powers of the magistrate are specifically laid down in sections 3(1) , 8 , 9 and 10 of the Act ; and that in consequence , apart from consideration where appropriate whether the offence in question was an offence of a political character , the magistrate is not concerned with questions of foreign law at all , being concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to an English crime or crimes specified in the Secretary of State 's order to proceed . |