Those who support the use of corpus linguistics in legal interpretation do
regard ordinary meaning as an empirical question — or at least as involving empirical questions.
Not exact matches
And when Evangelical leaders
regard an emphasis on the
ordinary means of grace as jeopardizing the Christian faith while going easy on, for example, serious deviations from Nicene teaching on the Trinity, they have traveled a long way from the concerns of the Reformers.
I just
meant that a thousand year period of stable temperature which happens to have a rapid warming trend at the end of the series is absolutely nothing out of the
ordinary with
regards to «other» thousand years periods in the Holocene.
The context and objectives of the AFMP gave no indication that the notion of a self - employed activity should be read more broadly than its «
ordinary meaning», namely an activity pursued by a person outside a relationship of subordination with
regard to conditions of work and remuneration and under the person's personal responsibility (AG conclusions, para 69).
[82] In this case, the impugned words include numerous
meanings that would, in the
ordinary course, be readily
regarded as defamatory.
The CA sought to give the 2002 Regulations their
ordinary meaning having
regard to the context and the purpose of the said Regulations.
Blasphemy, narrowly interpreted,
means saying something that contradicts the doctrines of the nation's official religion, without
regard to whether it is offensive - so, for example, saying that Mary the Mother of Jesus got pregnant the
ordinary way, rather than having a virgin birth, would be blasphemy even if no one was offended by you saying that in a country where Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism or the Anglican Church was the official religion.
Casey v. Masullo Brothers Builders, Inc. (218 A.D. 2d 907)- Buyer sues seller for fraud, misrepresentation, mistake of fact and breach of contract where buyer purchased residence based upon representations by seller through newspaper advertisements and representations by seller's Realtor
regarding the school district within which the property was located; Realtor's statement based upon own investigation, loan profile sheet from an abstract company prepared prior to the closing, and town tax rolls which confirmed placement of the property within the disclosed school district; unless the facts are matters peculiarly within one party's knowledge, the other party must make use of
means available to him to ascertain, by the exercise of
ordinary intelligence, the truth of such representations; question of fact exists whether a reasonable inquiry would have revealed the correct school district; order dismissing seller's motion for summary judgment affirmed.
The Court stated» «reason to know»
means that the actor has knowledge of facts from which a reasonable man of
ordinary intelligence or one of the superior intelligence of the actor in question would either infer the existence of the fact in question or would
regard its existence as so highly probable that his conduct would be predicated upon the assumption that the fact did exist.»