Sentences with phrase «viewed in the eyes of the law»

It is perhaps one of the most enduring legal «urban myths»: that a man and woman who live together for many years, support each, maybe have children together, are viewed in the eyes of the law as being married and so when their relationship ends, they will be entitled to receive a fair share of their home and any other assets.

The presence of children within a union can drastically affect the way a common law relationship is viewed in the eyes of the law, as cohabiting couples with a child are considered common law many years before their childless counterparts.

Not exact matches

When we view things with earthly eyes we get an earthly answer, we look at things purely in terms of rules or laws.

Life in the real world has long been tougher than in the towers of academia and the luxury afforded by a tenured spot on a U.S. law school faculty has been viewed with jaundiced eyes by many.

The Supreme Court accepted the Plaintiff's arguments and found that it is nearly certain that the Indiana legislature intended for USPS certified mail, USPS registered mail, and commercial couriers to all be viewed the same in the eyes of the law for purposes of determining a date of filing.

He explicitly declines to take a firm position regarding which of these models is the most plausible one, but he appears, at least in my eyes, more prone to side with the direct rights model, especially in view of the analogies with human rights law (see also his analysis here).

Failure to do so could be viewed as negligence in the eyes of the law and may make the property owner liable if someone gets hurt.

I have encountered the challenges of administrative law for most of my professional life in various capacities, but the sheer diversity of diagnoses and prescriptions, from such a wide range of contributors with such disparate views and organizing premises, has been eye - opening.

Those who are in control of law departments, law firms, professional regulatory structures, as well as the media, persist in viewing the world though a lens which suggests that while «non-lawyers» are helpful to legal work, their contributions and roles are not as important as the ones played by lawyers in providing excellent client service and results; professional staff on legal ops teams remain second - class citizens, at least in the eyes of many lawyers.

While an in - depth discussion of all the relevant specificities of Quebec law in this area is beyond the scope of this brief article, we will provide a bird's - eye view of how Quebec law tackles the interpretation of contractual terms, express or implied.

The Innovative Advocate: Canada's Legal Future Ivan Merrow gives a student eye's view of the need for innovation in the field of law.

From the law firm point of view, firms «need to differentiate yourself in the eye of the client,» he says.

Considering this massive power imbalance and the general change of the moral views by society (which are also motivated by the situation sex workers where in), the courts changed their opinion on prostitution and § 138 BGB and, suddenly, prostitution was legal the eyes of German civil law.

Observe traffic laws, remain conscious of other drivers, and keep an eye out for patrolling police vehicles to minimize the chances of making driving errors in plain view.

This is a bird's eye view of the rally to reform gun laws outside the old Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee, Feb. 21, 2018.