We went to the council but they said the tree was not diseased, they were not liable and what happened was an act of God. |
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That is important now, because referees are liable to book players for trivial things. |
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You can't afford to be so oblivious, she'd scold, or you're liable to waltz right into trouble. |
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Abstract nouns are all liable to be hijacked and twisted, by people of all political ideas. |
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Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure. |
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Does that cover a person adjudged liable to pay a pecuniary penalty in a civil action? |
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By the 15th cent., the palace was a rabbit warren of rooms and corridors, swarming with servants and lawyers, and liable to flooding. |
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Should he show sloth in anything, he shall be liable to grave responsibility as the neglector of the state's weal. |
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A plaintiff need not take steps to recover compensation for his loss from parties who, in addition to the defendant, are liable to him. |
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Anyone who kills a dying person is liable to the death penalty as a common murderer. |
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If so, he also may be liable for state and local income taxes, which combined amount to a rate of 10.44 per cent. |
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Canadian law recognizes exceptional situations where an officer or director can be held liable. |
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Vehicles with worn or defective shock absorbers are less stable and more liable to go out of control. |
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A solicitor, being one of those who profess skills in a calling, is liable for failure to exercise those skills in both tort and contract. |
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If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff. |
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The trial judge held the defendants liable for failing to close down that part of the factory. |
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Jack shall not be liable for interruptions caused by strikes, riots, floods, acts of God, loss of communication, or by any event beyond his control. |
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He might have been a little more liable to worry because they were departing from their usual routine. |
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Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction. |
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The harder Benton hits Bevin, the more that coalition is liable to turn on Paul. |
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He cannot therefore be liable as a joint tortfeasor with the company. |
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Legislators stopped short of making adultery illegal but will consider making adulterers liable to compensate their spouses in divorce settlements. |
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Today, we understand that the era of political ignorance is over and that those in power who abuse their authority can be challenged and held liable in a court of law. |
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People who would either forsake government aid if possible, or volunteer their time to create non-state charitable institutions, are liable to be considered suckers. |
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Solicitors acting on behalf of a number of officers have written to cinemas and halls pointing out that they may be liable to action should the film be found to be defamatory. |
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After the sale, and the recovery of the amount owing on the mortgage, including interest and costs, the guarantor will be liable for any shortfall. |
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As a general rule, someone who acted without mental fault is not liable in criminal law. |
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Even though the injury might be reasonably foreseeable, the doctor is not liable. |
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On appeal, it was inappropriate to hold the defendants liable for the death. |
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A person guilty of manslaughter is liable to imprisonment for life or for any shorter term. |
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For a basic offence, a person found guilty of this offence is liable for imprisonment of up to 10 years. |
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The Act effectively made the beneficial owner of the land the legal owner and therefore liable for feudal dues. |
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For example, a trustee could be liable if assets are not properly invested. |
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In addition, a trustee may be liable to its beneficiaries even where the trust has made a profit but consent has not been given. |
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The legal fiction used was that by failing to pay after promising to do so, a defendant had committed deceit, and was liable to the plaintiff. |
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Simpson was acquitted in criminal court of murder but later found liable for the tort of wrongful death. |
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In certain cases, a person might be liable for their employee or child under the law of agency through the doctrine of respondeat superior. |
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Typically, a victim cannot hold another liable if the victim has implicitly or explicitly consented to engage in a risky activity. |
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For a defendant to be held liable, it must be shown that the particular acts or omissions were the cause of the loss or damage sustained. |
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Shareholders are not liable for any remaining debts owed to the corporation's creditors. |
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Accordingly, companies will normally be liable for all the act and omissions of their officers and agents. |
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For this reason, all partners in a typical general partnership may be held liable for the wrongs committed by one partner. |
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If a man leaves his arms about, and another knocks them over so that they kill or injure a man, the owner is liable. |
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If a man lend his horse to another and the borrower is injured, the lender is liable. |
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Jurors themselves can also be held liable if they deliberately compromise their impartiality. |
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This meant that in addition to recovering naval deserters, it considered any United States citizens who were born British liable for impressment. |
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If they become large enough, damage to tires, wheels, and vehicle suspensions is liable to occur. |
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People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits. |
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As it is, one must turn to some authority not liable to the charge of being tinctured with the Biblical element. |
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If I give a quarter of it to each of my two children, retaining half for myself, wouls s d they be liable to pay capital gains tax if I sold it? |
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In 1856, a new Enlistment Act was introduced by the Company, which in theory made every unit in the Bengal Army liable to service overseas. |
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Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. |
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Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics. |
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I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof. |
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Hence a certain gladiatour, whose caul Galen cut out, was so liable to suffer cold, that he kept his belly constantly covered with wool. |
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It. must be borne in mind that the bones of a young infant are little more than gristle, and are liable to bend, and so become deformed. |
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Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions. |
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Furthermore, masters who chose to kill slaves rather than take care of them were liable to be charged with murder. |
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This was a body of the principal landowners liable to pay land tax, and was unelected. |
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Individuals who are both resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom are additionally liable to taxation on their worldwide income and gains. |
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Although liable to censorship, the latter has a tradition of satirising and attacking School policies, as well as documenting recent events. |
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In previous years, he could become demoralized by being behind and not playing well, and was liable to lose several consecutive frames. |
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It also campaigned to end child labour, increase the rights of women in the workplace, and make shipowners liable for accidents involving seamen. |
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Simpson was held civilly liable in 1997 for wrongful death even after being tried and acquitted in 1995 of murder. |
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Only Muslims considered medically fit were liable to have such sentences carried out. |
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Muslims are not allowed to consume alcohol in Qatar and Muslims caught consuming alcohol are liable to flogging or deportation. |
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General rules of contract law apply in full, although it is difficult to hold agencies liable for breach of contract. |
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Otherwise opting for a private hospital makes the patient liable for private hospital fees. |
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At that time all printing presses and publications were required to be licensed, and publishers were liable to the Court of High Commission. |
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The head of a kin group was entitled to extra property since he was liable for debts a kinsman could not pay. |
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Each local authority sets a tax rate expressed as the annual levy on a Band D property inhabited by two liable adults. |
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They were often figures of fun, liable to be splashed with water or to fall through a roof. |
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This was necessary due to the precarious nature of the access road which is liable to frequent rock falls and landslips. |
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In 1913 the Government Law Officers gave an opinion that the Duke of Cornwall is not liable to taxation on income from the Duchy. |
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At any sign of weakness, Aztec nobles within Tenochtitlan and in other Aztec tributaries were liable to rebel. |
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In English law, there is no Good Samaritan rule therefore one cannot be criminally liable for an omission unless a duty of care is owed. |
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Top 5 JSA can be withheld from claimants for between four and 13 weeks, with repeat offenders liable for three-year stoppages. |
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The judgment re-establishes that the directors and the shareholders cannot be made vicariously liable in criminal matters. |
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If your payment is delayed, ebay is liable to send a dun or two. |
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The Onion, while in its seedly state is liable to be injured by the Slugs. |
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The jury determines the truth or falsity of factual allegations and renders a verdict on whether a criminal defendant is guilty, or a civil defendant is civilly liable. |
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A trustee may be held personally liable for problems, although fiduciary liability insurance similar to directors and officers liability insurance can be purchased. |
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Alternatively, the defendant will not be liable if the damage would, or could on the balance of probabilities, have occurred anyway, regardless of his or her negligence. |
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Unless they were separated, both would die, but if separated, the reliant twin would die, the doctors therefore being liable to prosecution for murder. |
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As none came with the coach from Deadwood, I suppose the amount of funds was insignificant. You can't tell, though, for the stage company is liable to play possum sometimes. |
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Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them. |
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The usage arises from the legislation governing the management of the Thames and laying down the categories of boats and the tolls for which they were liable. |
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Bats have typical mammalian lungs, which are thought to be more sensitive to sudden air pressure changes than the lungs of birds, making them more liable to fatal rupture. |
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The government made a plea to men liable to conscription, asking them to volunteer to work in the mines, instead, but few responded, and the manpower shortage continued. |
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As a result, the unions involved became liable, by common law, for incitement to breach of contract and faced potential sequestration of their assets by employers. |
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In English admiralty law, piracy was classified as petit treason during the medieval period, and offenders were accordingly liable to be drawn and quartered on conviction. |
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This is in perfect accord with our finding that the confident judgment of a given subject is more liable to be correct than an inconfident one by the same subject. |
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The athlete is liable for what is in his or her body, and the amount of substance that was in his body was over the threshold, and that's the important matter. |
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Sadly, a bankrolled club is always liable to such a switchback existence. |
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