Sentences with phrase «civil liability situation»

If you run into a civil liability situation following an accidental injury or other related event at your rented condo or house, your liability policy will help set you up with legal defense.

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Failing to do this constitutes recklessness and it is punishable by a misdemeanor or even a criminal charge depending on the situation; however, civil liability for the damages caused are kept separate.

Recourse to a civil lawyer occurs in all sorts of situations of civil litigation: this litigation may concern failure to respect a contract, damages involving third party liability, neighbourhood trouble, damages caused by actions performed in bad faith or the incompetence of a person, personal injury, etc..

As Lord Atkin put it when referring to the Good Samaritan situation in Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, [1932] All ER Rep 1, «an omission which was likely to have as its reasonable and probable consequence damage to the health of the victim of thieves, but for which the priest and the Levite would have incurred no civil liability in English law».