Example sentences of "claim [prep] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite this , a Customs official suggested to the Foreign Office that approaches be made to the two ambassadors to suggest that they should not allow the officials to appear in court to support this claim as part of the defence case . |
| 2 | It has even been speculated that a community which has grown up around a manufacturing plant may have a claim for compensation against the owners , if the latter decide to close the plant , in order to compensate for the diminution of land values and the destruction of the local economy . |
| 3 | In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces . |
| 4 | The challenge to the council 's resolution in Wandsworth LBC v. Winder was collateral in two ways : it was made in answer to a claim for possession of the premises by the Council , and it was incidental to an assertion of a contractual right under the lease . |
| 5 | On the third party 's appeal , on the question whether assuming the defendants ' illegality to be proved , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio precluded a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 : — |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 7 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 8 | In my judgment the ex turpi causa defence is not available as an answer to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 . |
| 9 | A £90,000 claim for damages for the use of bailiffs in the shopping complex will be heard in the High Court . |
| 10 | A Scottish passenger is also lodging a claim for damages at the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | The 28-year-old centre half has instructed solicitors to take preliminary steps in a claim for damages against the club and the Welsh international . |
| 12 | If you are receiving Housing Benefit help with your rent at the moment there is no need for you to make a further claim for help with the Poll Tax . |
| 13 | This stated objective was often at variance with the reality of the administration of the territory , and it was not clear whether the individuals had any basis for a claim for performance of the treaty in either an international or domestic forum . |
| 14 | The new title is purely honourary and will not result in any increased legal claim for protection of the area . |
| 15 | ‘ It is up to each State , to protect its rights ’ , whether these be a claim for reparations for the commission of an international delict , a claim of cessation of a continuing wrongful act , or a claim to act in self-defence . |
| 16 | But this part of Althusser 's more ambitious claim for Marx as the founder of an altogether new kind of theory is not upheld . |
| 17 | That does not have to be decided in this case , nor is it necessary to consider what defences would be open to such a claim for recovery of the money paid if it lay . |
| 18 | In the case of a claim for bereavement in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , Pannone and Napier explain that anomalous situations arise from the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , for example : |
| 19 | If rot is present there , it does not stem from recent damage to the roof and remedial work to the areas affected would not ordinarily be accepted as a valid part of the claim for repairs to the roof . |
| 20 | Er , my claim for expenses for the park , which is on the agenda later come back to this , the cleaner 's wages , one trip to Newark , bill development er for Mrs Susan , |
| 21 | The GSLP , which was traditionally strongly opposed to Spain 's claim of sovereignty over the territory , had campaigned on a platform calling for greater autonomy from the United Kingdom , particularly in the economic sphere . |
| 22 | Iran on Sept. 10 repeated its claim of sovereignty over the Gulf islands of Abu Musa , Tunb al-Kubra and Tunb al-Sughra , and rejected a Sept. 9 statement by the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) supporting the UAE 's sovereignty [ see below ] . |
| 23 | But with no claim of responsibility for the blast at Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , just before midnight on Tuesday and no trace of a bomb , inquiry chiefs are publicly keeping an open mind about its cause . |
| 24 | European observers were reported as saying that they had witnessed no serious problems during voting but did not comment on the claim of fraud after the close of stations . |
| 25 | A right to ‘ life ’ may be philosophically opaque ; and right to ‘ liberty ’ may mean anything or nothing ; but a right to the ‘ pursuit of happiness ’ is unmistakably individualist , a claim upon society for the absence or minimum of restraint upon oneself , counterbalanced by the renunciation of restraint upon others . |
| 26 | The particulars of claim in actions against the Crown must specify the circumstances in which the Crown 's liability is said to have arisen and " as to the government department and officers of the Crown concerned " ( Ord 42 , r 4 ) . |
| 27 | In the case of computer hardware , a person suffering loss or injury as a result of the negligence of the manufacturer will have a claim in negligence against the manufacturer regardless of the fact that the equipment was bought from a dealer . |
| 28 | Whilst an exclusion clause in the manufacturer 's contract of sale could provide the manufacturer with a good defence to a claim by the wholesaler , it would provide him with no defence to a claim in negligence by the consumer . |
| 29 | The settlement of a dispute is achieved by an agreement between the parties to abandon any further claim in respect of the subject of the dispute . |
| 30 | It seems we may be able to pursue a negligence claim in respect of the fire . |