Sentences with phrase «legal sense»

Does this make legal sense for the mother to do this?

In a strict legal sense, the likely answer is no.

It is something to be aware of when using the term to explain it in its full legal sense.

An individual doesn't necessarily have to show damage or loss in the traditional Canadian legal sense but have some interest in the money before he or she can get a refund.

Even though it makes legal sense — the best evidence rule does require the actual object when you can get it — it doesn't make real - world sense.

As OxVox point out, it means that the fans will never wake up to find that the ground — their ground, in a very real if not strictly legal sense — is now somebody else's.

They make no Constitutional / legal sense because they violate the Constitution and the Clean Air Act in important ways, particularly with regard to the separation of powers.

«necessaries of life» «Necessaries of life» are necessaries that «tend to preserve life and not necessaries in their ordinary legal sense».

I don't mean, is there a good reason, I mean in a technical legal sense).

He argues courts are likely to still take account of developments in the ECtHR because a) it makes good legal sense to understand how a similarly situated human rights body answers a similar human rights question and b) if the UK courts completely disregard the ECtHR the individual still has the right to appeal the ECtHR and there will be an inevitable conflict between the two courts and create legal confusion and uncertainty.

Interestingly enough, because in the US you have the right to appeal to a higher court if you don't like the decision of a lower court, many times states will find very popular gun control bills struck down by a Federal court who tells them that in the pure legal sense, their gun control laws are unconstitutional.

Most particularly, Kindle Worlds is built at least in part on substructure developed for Amazon's self - publishing business — and if Amazon (as seems likely) ends up charging KW authors any sort of setup or service fees to those uploading works to the KW publishing program, I think it would be next to impossible to argue that works uploaded on that basis were somehow «works for hire» in the proper legal sense.

but they aren't really commitments in the formal legal sense.

Common types of charitable organizations — which the IRS uses in its generally accepted legal sense — include food banks, museums, theatre groups, colleges, low - income housing organizations, and day care centers.

OpenAIRE, and open access more generally, are restoring a balance between then and now, and are set to encourage acts of learning that should be celebrated as such, in this original legal sense.

A judge would look very unkindly upon a lawyer who requested another judge be in the courtroom in an extra-judicial sense, or in some sort of legal sense as (wrongly) perceived by the lawyer.

This capital city has a higher property crime rate than San Diego, unfortunately, but what it lacks in legal sense in makes up for in financial generosity that doesn't break the bank.

Just curious: in what strict legal sense is an owner a share of (common) stock not the owner of really small piece of a company?

The central debate about the inclusion of Indigenous people in constitutional preambles tends to be about whether such references should be rights - neutral, or whether they should suggest — in a moral if not strictly legal sense — the existence of Indigenous peoples» ongoing rights.

In a technical legal sense, the Grantor (the borrower / buyer) conveys the property to a Trustee (usually an attorney) to hold for the benefit of the Beneficiary (you, the seller / lender).

«In a legal sense, that could be the equivalent of admitting causation,» says Marc Edelman, associate professor of law at Baruch College in New York City.

Friends and family members will inevitably say they are «giving» you money for your business, but rarely do they mean to make you an outright gift in the legal sense.

In Canada, the first pillar is dominated by two large programs that are financed and administered by the Government of Canada — namely, Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), which is part of the OAS program in a formal, legal sense.

Not in the legal sense of front - running.

Because Facebook claimed that the Cambridge Analytica incident was not a «data breach» in the legal sense, it has not provided notice to users whose data was accessed; the company has promised to change that and notify all affected users.

If abortion was murder in the legal sense, people would be in jail.

True, there is no copyright in the legal sense.

Not every Christian will like this but... the more the church tries to «own» marriage (the concept / practice in the legal sense) the more trouble it brings to itself.

But now the legal battles against the HHS employer contraceptive mandate are shifting to very different questions of personhood: Are for - profit corporations «persons» in such a legal sense that they have religious rights?

This made legal sense.

If that is the case, it is rather pointless to put out the SCOTUS rulings to justify your position on abortion beyond anything in a legal sense.

Besides, like all definitional approaches, this one still says to people of faith that they must ensure that they come within the approved definition if they want, in a legal sense, to be free.

All Christian claims that Judaism confesses a God of law in the formal / legal sense in contrast to a «Christian God» of grace are based on false views of fulfillment; such views not only damage Christian - Jewish relations but are devastating for the life of the church itself.

Judge Jones of Florida says yes — in the legal sense of the word.

Our discipleship, which often has tended to be moralistic in a legal sense, also needs to be reconceived so that love has the preeminence, rather than the coldly moralistic interpretations of the divine purpose so often taught the past and even today hanging on in many supposedly Christian circles.

One of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament is that in which Paul sends Onesimus back to Philemon — not emancipated in the legal sense, but «no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother,... both in the flesh and in the Lord» (v. 16).

------------ Yeah, and the way he worded his post, it seemed as though a corporation can actually be seen as a person at least in a legal sense.

It won't be phrased quite like that, but the wording will mean that, in both a practical, and legal sense.

From the stipulation in the present case, it appears that the term «exclusive use» had, up to that time, been uniformly held by the Commissioner of Patents to mean «rightfully exclusive» as distinguished from «sole and exclusive,» and that the application was signed on the assurance of reputable counsel, that, in the legal sense of the word, the Mcllhenny use had been exclusive.