Sentences with phrase «liability offense»

Product liability law is generally considered a strict liability offense.

For example, speeding is a summary and strict liability offense: you're guilty if you're over the speed limit.

Speeding is a strict liability offense in South Carolina, and it is not a valid legal defense to admit you were speeding but not going as fast as you were charged.

Paffhuasen acknowledged that DUI is an absolute liability offense, and that she met two of the three elements of DUI: on a public street and impaired.

Speeding, being a strict liability offense, does not have any legal defenses.

One particularly interesting aspect of the decision is that, when the law first came out, my understanding is that lawyers for accused spent time arguing that this was a strict liability offense, so as to extend the defense of due diligence to their clients.