Sentences with phrase «creates civil liability»

Texas used to recognize «heart balm» torts such as «criminal conversation» which basically created civil liability for having an affair, but that was abolished legislatively in the 1970s.

They claimed that the aboriginal rights that were not yet recognized or established could not create civil liability on the part of third parties.

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The legislation seeks to increase the criminal and civil statutes of limitations, remove special protections for public institutions that have acted as a shield against liability and create a one - year look - back window to allow survivors over the age of 23 to seek retrospective civil relief.

In addition to increasing the statute of limitations, the CVA would also remove special protections for public institutions that have acted as a shield against liability and create a one - year look - back window to allow survivors over the age of 23 to seek retrospective civil relief.

Notably, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez came to its conclusion that there was no civil liability of a police department or police officers for failure to enforce a restraining order in the face of language in a state statute whose plain language fairly clearly created a mandatory duty to that effect.