Sentences with phrase «fears of a reasonable person»

But the circumstances must be sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person, and the party killing must have acted under the influence of such fears alone.

Not exact matches

What I mean is that the fear of a group of pointy white - hooded people is more reasonable than fear of a group of immigrants.

stage); projection (onto others of the feelings or impulses eliciting anxiety); rationalization (giving oneself and others reasonable excuses for unreasonable behavior); denial (of threatening aspects of reality); introjection (seeking protection by identifying internally with a feared person or idea); reaction formation (denying threatening impulse by going to the other extreme in one's behavior — e.g., denying repressed rage by behaving in super «loving» ways); intellectualizing (avoiding threatening feelings by chronic «head - tripping»).

These NCB people are so fond of doing things the way «nature» intended, you'd think it would have crossed their mind that nature intended us to feel reasonable fear in order to keep us alive.

When one couples the plausibility of underground heat causing instability in one region with the old newspaper articles about fears of ice sheet collapse from 100 years ago, at a minimum a reasonable person should wonder what has really been going on for many centuries.

Section 810 of the Criminal Code sets out that a peace bond may be ordered when an information is laid before a justice or on behalf of any person who fears on reasonable grounds that another person will cause personal injury to him or her or to his or her spouse or common - law partner or child or will damage his or her property.

California law requires that the person making the threat (a) intend for it to be taken as a threat and (b) put victims in reasonable apprehension of fear.

Systematic and / or continued behaviors that afflict or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person fear for their safety or the safety of those around them constitute harassment.

(1) An information may be laid before a justice by or on behalf of any person who fears on reasonable grounds that another person will cause personal injury to him or her or to his or her spouse or common - law partner or child or will damage his or her property.

You commit an assault when you engage in conduct that places another person in reasonable fear of a battery.

Section 810 stipulates that a peace bond may be ordered by the court in cases where «an information is laid before a justice or on behalf of any person who fears on reasonable grounds that another person will cause personal injury to him or her or to his or her spouse or common - law partner or child or will damage his or her property».

Peace bonds are another form of no - contact order, available under section 810 of the Criminal Code in circumstances where the applicant fears on reasonable grounds that another person «will cause personal injury to him or her or to his or her spouse or common - law partner or child or will damage his or her property».

Did Y have a reasonable fear of being sued for «publication of private facts» by X, given 1) that the alleged «facts» were about me and not about X, and 2) «Tom Au is not an Ivy League graduate» would not be offensive to a reasonable person, and 3) the email had been circulated to 20 people, basically, all of X's and my mutual acquaintances.

Section 1 (6) of RCA 2016 adopts the definition of «riot» in s 1 of the Public Order Act 1986, namely: «Where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot.»