Sentences with phrase «facie liable»

He did, however, find that, given the time lapse, the potential creditors» claims were prima facie liable to be dismissed for want of prosecution or abuse of process.

As does the profession's reaction to a regime where a firm, once complained against, is prima facie liable to pay the OLC's administrative costs of dealing with that complaint, unless they can show that they first dealt with the complaint through their own procedures, and were, in effect, not guilty of the allegations made.

Not exact matches

The Court found that Con Edison had met its prima facie burden of demonstrating that the defective equipment that caused the explosion was not Con Edison's and, accordingly, Con Edison could not be held liable for the explosion if it was not on notice of the leak.

If the defendants, who would prima facie be liable for their own negligence, seek to exempt themselves by words of some kind, they must show, first, that those words form part of the contract between the parties and, secondly, that those words are so clear that they must be understood by the parties in the circumstances as absolving the defendants from the results of their own negligence.