"Legal entitlement" refers to rights or benefits that are granted to a person under the law. It means that you have a legitimate claim or permission to something based on the rules and regulations established by the legal system.
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However, the assessment of means will normally reflect the actual extent to which the claimant benefits from the income of the holding, rather than the
strictly legal entitlement, as follows.
A set
of legal entitlements such as Britain has become has no more reality than the Empire did in the 60s when buffers were still to be found lamenting it.
Religion paves the moral main street of a white - clapboard America inhabited by independent individuals who lend each other a helping hand to earn their own way, support their own families and worship their own God, instead of depending for handouts on a welfare state that regulates hardworking individuals out of existence and replaces Christian charity
with legal entitlements.
State laws use various terms to denote the wrongful nature of the act, such as «illegal,» «improper,» «unjust,» and «
without legal entitlement.»
People who think homosexuals should not have special
legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.
«As legal organizations working on behalf of marginalized and historically disadvantaged groups, the members of the Coalition each have extensive experience with the obstacles faced by such groups in accessing justice and therefore in enforcing their constitutional rights and
other legal entitlements.
We'll have to ensure a
solid legal entitlement to medically necessary benefits in state law and ensure adequate financing to pay for lifesaving care and treatment.
A court ruling might determine the plaintiff is entitled to damages, but the
only legal entitlements your book is entitled to are the royalties established in the publishing agreement.
When the wife later realized that she had likely not received a fair settlement under this do - it - yourself agreement, she brought the matter to court to have it remedied and brought into line with her
proper legal entitlements.
There was authority that an individual's monetary loss, in the sense of loss of future livelihood, unless based on loss of some professional or business goodwill or other
present legal entitlement, can not constitute a «possession» attracting the protection of Art 1.
The expansion of
student legal entitlements has been accompanied by the increasing formalization and institutionalization of school discipline.
Separately, records of two of the Harris properties» water licences released under the Government Information (Public Access) Act to the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) indicate significant volumes of water have been pumped on Harris farms beyond
any legal entitlement.
He ordered: «that the suspended lawmaker be reinstated immediately with all
his legal entitlements paid in arrears.»
a moral or
legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way.
Where disabilities are severe, private schools may not have the necessary facilities, and even in less severe instances, parents may prefer
the legal entitlements and the greater range of funded services in the public sector.
Foreigners need to prove
a legal entitlement to reside in the country, so visa documentation is also needed.
Tenancy in Common: This is
a legal entitlement to only your portion of a property in the case the other property owner dies.
Tenancy by Entirety: This is
a legal entitlement to a property to a spouse in the case the other spouse dies.
The two - party political system in the US and the moral and
legal entitlements of non-human animals.
As previously reported in Law Times, Keshen was accused of several acts of misconduct, including failing to pay Indian residential school clients their full settlements within a reasonable period of time after receiving them, and transferring settlement funds for clients from his trust account to his general account «without
any legal entitlement to the monies.»
When a legal claim goes to trial, it's important that you have skilled attorneys fighting on your behalf for
your legal entitlements.
As an Ontario court recently ruled, while employees have
no legal entitlement to continued employment, they do retain some basic rights.
This legislation really has nothing to do with Fighting Fraud and only further reduces
the legal entitlement to innocent accident victims.
This latter value involves the dual - pronged ability of citizens to self - govern according to a clear understanding of
their legal entitlements and obligations within a democratic order, while simultaneously being free to publicly question the efficacy and legitimacy of these same laws to which they know that they are coercively beholden.
Daniel A. Lublin Toronto Metro News, June 13, 2007 With
no legal entitlement to continued employment, Canadian employees decry that the law of dismissal favours their employer.
As a result, employers» first settlement offers are often lower than their employees»
legal entitlement.
Do not assume that your employer has provided you with
your legal entitlements upon dismissal.
Since employees have
no legal entitlement to continued employment, Canadian employers get to call all the shots.
But with
no legal entitlement to continued employment, no one is indispensable.
The employee would only be entitled to 8 weeks notice of dismissal pursuant to the ESA but may have
a legal entitlement to a severance package of up to 24 months reasonable notice of dismissal.
It is not unusual for a severance package offered by an employer to be less than the employee's
legal entitlements.
For one thing, it has been said that «a long term employee has a moral claim which has matured into
a legal entitlement to a longer notice period.»
The bottom line is, your status as an «employee», «dependent contractor», or «independent contractor» affects
your legal entitlements while you are employed and when your employment ends.
In other words, the fact that an employer may have terminated the dismissed employees insurance benefits does not necessarily eliminate the employee's
legal entitlement to those benefits.
A claim of squatters to
legal entitlement to a parcel of property occasionally occurs... Read more
While such a position may be unfortunate to Mr. Krishnamoorthy right now, the fact remains that he may still win his case if the trial court finds that his employment agreement is nonetheless not dispositive of
his legal entitlements.
By accepting these conditions and leaving your job without holding your former employer accountable for your loss of employment, your stress and humiliation you will be forfeiting
your legal entitlement to compensation, which is considered a financial safety net to help you while you are between jobs and reparation for your injuries.