Sentences with phrase «legal concept of»

The legal concept of «homestead» is provided by the Florida constitution.

I still seek a presumption of joint custody, or even better, an abolition of the legal concept of «custody.»

Our activities began in 1993 after the High Court's historic decision in Mabo v Queensland (No. 2)(1992), which recognises Indigenous peoples» rights to land under the legal concept of native title, and are currently supported through a funding agreement with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Overall, what the Larrakia case makes clear is how fragile the legal concept of native title is, when compared with notions of culture and identity.

Duplicate litigation is to be avoided and thus the legal concept of res judicata - when a court has decided the legal issue already it constitutes a bar to a subsequent action involving the same claim.

Like most motor vehicle accident cases, motorcycle accident claims are almost always governed by the legal concept of negligence.

-LSB-...] The materials that had been forwarded to the Tribunal in advance of the hearing on behalf of the worker included documents related to the legal concept of a «McKenzie Friend».

In this chapter, the author explains the economic notion of monopoly power and compares that to the legal concept of monopoly power with the goal of helping lawyers better understand how to address the issue of monopoly power in an exclusion case.

Part III.A then explores the arguments for and against continuing to narrow the legal concept of head of state immunity.

This is the legal concept of, «Attractive Nuisance», which holds a landowner responsible for dangerous conditions on their property that attract children to enter the property, such as bodies of water with submerged rocks and toxic chemical contents.

Slip and fall claims fall under the legal concept of premises liability, which holds certain entities and individuals responsible for injuries that result from dangerous conditions.

The case demonstrates the legal concept of comparative negligence in California.

«Neglect» refers to the legal concept of negligence, in which a party breaches a legal duty of care and causes an accident.

Under the legal concept of premises liability, the victim of a slip and fall accident can claim damages if the accident was caused by the negligence of the property owner or an employee.

If you're planning on getting married in the new year, you may want to familiarize yourself with the legal concept of Community Property before becoming one with your soulmate — spiritually and financially.

Under the legal concept of product liability, a manufacturer has a responsibility to design and produce a product which is safe in normal use.

The legal concept of adverse - effect discrimination and the duty to accommodate also have broad implications outside of the workplace context.

But it's courteous and ethical to quote the source of your inspiration (and similar to the legal concept of «moral rights», discussed in more detail below).

The legal concept of the documentary record is only pragmatically useful; it serves only to protect economic interests.

The legal concept of due process is as old as the Magna Carta.

Keep in mind, by fraud we mean creating fake campaigns or companies, which is different from the legal concept of fraud which focuses on false representation.

The U.S. Supreme Court emasculated the controversial legal concept of «honest services» on Jun. 24th and in so doing, handed a moral victory to jailed former press baron Conrad Black.

Taking her cue from the legal concept of «wilful blindness,» which assigns culpability to those who could have and should have known something that they chose not to see, journalist Heffernan asks why individuals and organizations are so often unwilling to recognize the truths in front of them.

This should include expanding the rules of proof for Aboriginal rights and title to more appropriately recognize Indigenous legal concepts of property, resource use and management.

Not exact matches

Protests of this nature don't constitute a legal strike for unionized workers, and the concept of striking in the strict sense doesn't exist for non-union workers.

According to Traxler, entrepreneurs still view bond financing as it was prior to tax legislation in 1986 and before the mini-bond concept: a long, costly process demanding the deployment of a full set of legal and tax advisors to handle the transaction.

I know a top 25 Texas law firm that is interested in joining forces in your plan; concept would be free legal services to the venture at the point you invest and to the point of profitability (90 days) to be sure the business is set up properly and well advised.

Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said that the raid was «completely inappropriate and unnecessary» and pointed out that attorney - client privilege may shield many of Cohen's files from investigators, a legal concept that protects communication between lawyers and their clients.

We hope to create a robust conversation that maps the past and future of legal theory and doctrine related to entrepreneurship — defining that concept broadly in terms of industry and size.

The essential concept of the public sphere is under siege from legal and extra-legal adversaries alike seeking to divide and conquer democracies by microtargeting neighbors into parallel realities using the tools of internet advertising and social media marketing.

Legal Concepts for Founders is a handbook designed to help founders build a solid foundation of the legal knowledge they Legal Concepts for Founders is a handbook designed to help founders build a solid foundation of the legal knowledge they legal knowledge they need.

Between the technological imperative, a need - to - know ethic, medical subspecialists so smugly focused, a legal system that has cancelled the concept of trust, and a reimbursement system that has become an end in itself, there is enough blame to go around for our present confusions.

I have flagged up the problem of consent as the foundation of sexual ethics before, but it seems that legal thinking on marriage has thus far proceeded without having to acknowledge the manifold difficulties inherent in the concept.

Because Greek philosophical concepts had to be translated into Latin legal concepts, theology in the West took on the character of codified law after the West lost Greek.

The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

You are right about the legal requirements, especially since the concept of justification is a legal term, right?

But any legal order must make some attempt to link the concept of law with the concept of justice.

In our time, we have a legal / moral concept that the penalty for a crime must be proportional to the severity of the crime.

Coons» concept of a parentocracy is simply unworkable and does not satisfy the definitional requirements of a legal system or of a sovereign power.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

The corporation was an economic and legal concept invented in the 19th century to avoid the problem of personal accountability.

We have a highly developed apparatus for thinking about and dealing with the individual and the State, but we lack adequate concepts and even words for a legal - political approach to those intermediate institutions within which the personalities of men, women, and children are formed, and upon which human beings depend for support and self - realization.

Yet the law does not exist in a vacuum, and the degeneration of legal terminology occurs at the same time as the broader breakdown of concepts in culture.

Isaiah Berlin thus deserves considerable credit for identifying the perversion of liberty that was at the root of the totalitarian project, and for defending a concept of liberty - as - noninterference that, in setting legal limits to coercive state power, has deep resonances in the American political tradition.

Such a process can be regarded as legal development (in the sense I have been using that concept here), and I therefore use the Buck index of generalized universalistic norms as its measure.

Privacy is a porous legal concept with an uneven history ranging from Justice Brandeis's 1890 definition of «the right to be left alone» to the so - called constitutional right of privacy delineated by William O. Douglas and used by William J. Brennan to support the abortion license in Roe v. Wade.

As the very notion of the definitive value of the human person is eroded, the concept of absolute right and wrong is lost from legal principle and social practice.

Perhaps marriage should simply be abolished as a legal concept to become a mere religious ceremony, or a statement of intent, with no outright binding contracts except for agreements on community property and provisions for children.

In governance we strive to apply Rudolf Steiner's concept of the threefold social organism which meets the different qualities and requirements of the economic, legal, and cultural spheres.

The appeal centred on the concept of dolus eventualis — a Latin legal phrase meaning the act was carried out knowing it would lead to death.