The appellate court, though it reversed the defendant's trial court victory, agreed that such an argument could be pursued. |
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The plaintiff, who was on the defendant's land as a licensee, was injured by the negligent shunting of railway trucks. |
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He confined his expert opinion to what speed the defendant's vehicle was travelling at having regard to the skid mark of 10.5 meters. |
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In September the plaintiff attempted garnishment on what he thought was the defendant's banker. |
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The trial developed that administering arsenic and croton oil to old men was by no means the defendant's only foible. |
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Therefore the defendant's fault was not a cause of the collision which occurred while the mate was in charge of the ship. |
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Peter Butterfield, mitigating, asked for magistrates to consider the defendant's previously unblemished record. |
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There was simply no evidence as to the defendant's possession of such drugs, or that they were funded from previous dealing. |
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He basically tried to change the subject to the defendant's otherwise blameless life. |
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The fact that the claimant was a trespasser is, from the defendant's point of view, purely fortuitous. |
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He took into account the defendant's age, his family problems, his previously blameless life and the fact that the money had been returned. |
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Victims have to show that but for the defendant's negligent conduct they would not have been injured. |
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He agreed only after ensuring that he was covered under the defendant's comprehensive car insurance policy. |
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The government can seize a defendant's assets immediately after indicting him, making it virtually impossible to finance an effective defense. |
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The defendant's friend's boyfriend had offered to move her car from a car park so she would not get a parking ticket but kept stalling it. |
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On day two, by reason of supervening events, the defendant's negligence ceases to be a cause of that continued trading. |
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With fault on both sides, it was the defendant's fault which was causatively more potent in relation to the injuries suffered. |
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That case received significant support from the evidence of the defendant's wife. |
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Having recovered from the headbutt, it was followed up by an immediate thrusting of the defendant's hand into his face. |
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Well, I will make an order that those two matters be permanently stayed and that the plaintiffs pay the defendant's costs. |
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On searching the defendant's bedroom he found a container with enough cannabis resin to make 35 cigarettes. |
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Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it. |
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The defendant's real complaint was that, when the trial bundle was sent by special delivery, the envelope was addressed wrongly. |
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The first is that it was the defendant's evidential case that was being tendered. |
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The letters contained a smaller envelope each, with the defendant's name on three of these and a further two names on the other two. |
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Striking out a defendant's defence disentitles that party from having any trial. |
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The plaintiff was the wife of one of three nightwatchmen who had gone to the defendant's hospital after drinking some tea and becoming ill. |
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The defendant's car was badly damaged and had a smashed windscreen and two shredded tyres. |
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The keeper of the vehicle was identified as the defendant's stepfather and he gave police his stepson's address. |
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Where the defendant's comment imputes corrupt, dishonest or wicked motives to the claimant the position is different. |
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Damages awarded for this type of loss are sometimes called aggravated damages, as the defendant's conduct aggravates the injury done. |
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Then came the defendant's rejoinder, the plaintiff's surrejoinder, the defendant's rebutter, and the plaintiff's surrebutter. |
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Judge Soedarto adjourned the next hearing to next Monday, when Antashari will reply to the rebuttals by the defendant's team of lawyers. |
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The defendant's motive should not change a lawful act into an unlawful act. |
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The motion was dismissed, on terms, without prejudice to the defendant's right to renew the motion at trial. |
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Her male colleague approached and took hold of the defendant's arm but was hit in the arm and the other officer was pushed away, she said. |
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In the passage cited above he referred to the defendant's asking the court to sanction his committing a wrongful act. |
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Only the state of the sanity of the defendant's mind mattered, and that was the purview of men with education and experience. |
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The plaintiff did not use the land and was unaware of the defendant's use of it. |
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The plaintiff issued a special demurrer to that plea, alleging it furnished no legal justification or excuse for the defendant's action. |
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It is on the eve of the defendant's trip to India that the subject matter of the lawsuit arises. |
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The four punks who attacked Sammy were all sitting handcuffed to chairs on the defendant's side of the room. |
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However, in court, Erin's surly manner and profane vocabulary do not endear her to the jury, which finds in the defendant's favor. |
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Your Honour, the first defendant's position is that the plaintiff is either estopped from bringing these proceedings or the proceedings constitute an abuse of process. |
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Once a jury renders a guilty verdict for murder in the first degree, mitigating factors are weighed against aggravating circumstances to decide the defendant's fate. |
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Since assumed jurisdiction would not accord with such standards, nor with the law of the defendant's home, this factor weighed against assuming jurisdiction. |
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A requirement that the defendant's belief be well-founded is ambiguous. |
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In re-examination the defendant's counsel explored this with the witness. |
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The defendant's capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct, or to conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law, was significantly impaired. |
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In 1556, the British Lord Chancellor, appalled by the excessive 120 page length of a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea, had him fined ten pounds and imprisoned. |
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Malice tips the balance towards finding the defendant's user unreasonable. |
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In making the determination whether or not there is that necessary element of repetition one looks at the whole history of the defendant's litigious activity. |
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This instruction does not cover the defendant's theory, which is that he had no knowledge of the theft of the car until after the asportation had ceased. |
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Most microscopists held that the blood of different mammals could not be differentiated, and so were reluctant to testify when a defendant's life might be at stake. |
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It requires the trier of fact to look at the defendant's state of mind. |
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In any event, the defendant's uncontradicted testimony is that she was present when that work was done and assisted with everything but the heavy lifting. |
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At first sight, to say that the defendant's nonfeasance did not cause the plaintiff's loss seems to provide a sort of objective criterion for not imposing liability. |
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The claimants submit that that is a decision to which no reasonable planning authority could come and it vitiates the defendant's consideration of the planning application. |
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Sometimes they hear from character witnesses, like the defendant's schoolteachers, who will describe if he or she seemed immature or prone to taking risks. |
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To take a hypothetical case, suppose that, on day one, an unlawful trading activity starts which is not disclosed or prevented as a result of the defendant's negligence. |
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The claimant's solicitor had sworn an affidavit in which she explained the difficulties that her firm was encountering in trying to ascertain the defendant's whereabouts. |
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It would be the defendant's early application that the writ be pared down to a considerable extent to put it in terms that are able to be properly defended and pleaded to. |
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The claimant gave uncontested evidence about the agricultural use of the defendant's premises, which include what was formerly a piggery and about 25 acres of grassland. |
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The fact that A.K. was the person who suggested lowering the sewers was confirmed during his examination by Zaven Sarkissian, the defendant's consulting engineer. |
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In a disappointing development for women's groups, the proposals on rape will not affect the burden of proof or the presumption of the defendant's innocence. |
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It was not disputed that the words were spoken on a privileged occasion, but the plaintiff alleged that the privilege was defeated by malice on the defendant's part. |
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So, both conceptually and evidentially, the last act within the defendant's control that gives the cause of complaint in relation evidentially closed. |
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Before filing a revised second amended complaint, the plaintiff's attorney sent the defendant's attorney a courtesy copy. |
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Such written request must be made to the Executive Vice President on or before the filing of the defendant's surrebuttal. |
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Trog upheld a downward dispositional departure based solely on the defendant's particular amenability to probation. |
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The focus of this test is the nature of the defendant's conduct rather than his mental state and it became the subject of major criticism. |
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A mitigating circumstance is something that reduces the defendant's blameworthiness or otherwise supports a less severe punishment. |
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In Peterson, the DOC records were being introduced to establish the defendant's prison releasee reoffender status at sentencing. |
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The congregation is judge, jury, appointer of experts, and even the appointer of the defendant's lawyer. |
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Yet, just as a plaintiffs expert may introduce a clinical practice guideline, a defendant's expert can attack its admissibility. |
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The contributory negligence defense can potentially eliminate the defendant's responsibility to pay damages to an injured plaintiff. |
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Between the defendant's acts and the victim's harm, the chain of causation must be unbroken. |
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The defendant was convicted because the prosecutor proved the defendant's prior knowledge of the victim's particular vulnerability. |
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Duress operates as an excuse but necessity operates as a justification, rendering the defendant's conduct lawful. |
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For example, a deed was conclusive proof of a defendant's liability to pay. |
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On the other hand, it matters not who is actually harmed through a defendant's actions. |
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If the claimant is involved in wrongdoing at the time the alleged negligence occurred, this may extinguish or reduce the defendant's liability. |
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Objection, Your Honour! The defendant's criminal record is immaterial to this case. |
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An action may be voluntarily dismissed at any time by the plaintiff prior to the defendant's filing of an Answer or Motion for Summary Judgment. |
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This may include, for example, aggravating circumstances which will be used to elevate the defendant's sentence if the defendant is convicted. |
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If cocaine is to be reclassified, defendant's arguments should be made to the legislative branch, not the courts. |
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Thus, the defendant's normal inhibitions must be overwhelmed by his or her belief in the efficacy of the threat. |
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The defendant's alibi is that he was at a meeting of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan during the time the crime was committed. |
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Central to his thought was the notion that the law, as it had evolved in modern societies, concerned with the material results of a defendant's actions. |
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Fast-track programs allow prosecutors in certain districts to offer below-Guidelines sentences in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea and waiver of certain rights. |
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A case can remain in limbo for years while the parties fight over a defendant's attempts to discover information about a plaintiff's possible inequitable conduct. |
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A novel aspect of the law on intention is that if one intends to harm somebody, it matters not who is actually harmed through the defendant's actions. |
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The plaintiff need not allege or prove proximate cause, which would indicate that the result of the defendant's actions was reasonably foreseeable. |
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County Court judgments are recorded in the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines and in the defendant's credit records held by credit reference agencies. |
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To assure a defendant's acquittal, a lawyer usually needed only to convince the jury that the victim was a pretty sorry specimen of a human being. |
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Doyle and Wright define restitutionary damages as being a monetary remedy that is measured according to the defendant's gain rather than the plaintiff's loss. |
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In R v Singh, the Court of Appeal held that a threat to expose the defendant's adultery would not be sufficient threat to overbear the will of an ordinary person. |
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Stevens acknowledged that district courts may be better situated than appellate courts to determine the reprehensibility of a defendant's conduct. |
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The plaintiffs here are third persons, and cannot be made responsible for the inadequate judgment or the improper exercise of power by the defendant's wife. |
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All the evidence points toward the defendant's guilt. I rest my case. |
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