Sentences with phrase «terms of the statute»

This decision establishes that in order to secure the benefits of the tolling statute, plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases have an affirmative duty to establish compliance with the explicit terms of the statute, 18 Del..

In those situations, you should quote only the key terms of the statute or case that are relevant to your situation; you should paraphrase the rest.

Nursing home injury cases can be a little more complex than other types of torts because they sometimes stem from some medical malpractice, which could complicate matters in terms of the statute of limitations (2 years, as opposed to the 4 allowed in personal injury cases).

«There are a number of states, though, that even if the data is encrypted, under the terms of the statute, you have to provide notice to the consumers and perhaps to the attorney general and that's the kind of thing that could spark an investigation,» he said.

Head of the agency or agency head for Departmental procurement means the Deputy Secretary except for acquisition actions that, by the terms of a statute or delegation, must be done specifically by the Secretary of Transportation.

As there is an obligation on the court in terms of statute to impose a clean break, extensive time to acquire the settlement amount is not likely to be contemplated when there are assets that can be disposed of by the wealthier party.

When a person is bitten by a dog and sustains a bodily injury that does not reach the level of «serious» according to the terms of the statute, he or she may still be eligible to collect compensation by filing a standard negligence claim.

The state legislature intended for insurers to strictly comply with the terms of the statute, as was established in the 1991 Maine Supreme Judicial Court case of Me.

Thus, he should not be considered a landowner under the terms of the statute.

Many statutes specifically state that there is a power to pass regulations under the terms of the statute.

Courts must sometimes determine, for example, whether common law rules supplement the terms of a statute.

The court found that functionally, the terms of the statute did not resemble a contract, because the Multistate Tax Commission did not permit member states to do anything collectively that each state could not do unilaterally.

In terms of statutes, the Indian Constitution (natch) and some Acts (selective and rather old) from the Centre.

As noted in October's column, Quebec's Act to provide a legal framework for information technologies, R.S.Q. c. C - C.1, proceeds here as elsewhere by looking at the policy functions of the seal rule and saying how the functions are to be satisfied electronically (by a «technological document», in the terms of the statute).