Example sentences of "[art] courts have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 2 | But before Read v. Lyons , the courts had gone further , holding that even a non-occupier may sue for personal injuries under the rule , and it is probably this development that their lordships had in mind . |
| 3 | Meanwhile David O Selznick made a public plea for people not to judge Mitchum until the courts had done so . |
| 4 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 5 | One can see what sort of benefit would have been taxable if the courts had decided that a tax charge could arise . |
| 6 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 7 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 8 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 9 | He then announced that the courts had found me innocent and therefore I would shortly be released . |
| 10 | But in the middle , cases would arise where the courts had to exercise their discretion , cases where differences of degree merged almost imperceptibly into differences of kind . |
| 11 | Mr Harrison said the courts had to make sure the punishment fitted the crime for such serious offences . |
| 12 | The scope of property includes property of persons who are not themselves visitors ( s. 1(3) ( b ) ) : ( b ) Before the Act , the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty and the activity duty . |
| 13 | Prior to the Act the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty , which was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises , and the activity duty , which was concerned with the occupier 's activities on his premises . |
| 14 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 15 | The courts had ordered that the prisoners be force-fed . |
| 16 | The courts had set the sum he should pay for his child by his first marriage at seventeen pounds fifty . |
| 17 | For Mr Rose to escape liability , the courts had to distinguish Jenkins v Betham ( 1855 ) 15 CB 167 . |
| 18 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 19 | Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater . |
| 20 | Over the years , the courts have adopted varying approaches . |
| 21 | In the case of trespassers the courts have adopted an objective rather than a subjective test of agreement . |
| 22 | However , in cases on other provisions of the Act reported to date the courts have adopted a broad , purposive , interpretation , and it therefore seems reasonable to assume that s3 could apply to all the situations described . |
| 23 | On occasion the courts have adopted artificially strict interpretations of exclusion clauses in order to deny their effect . |
| 24 | Where a person is deprived of some status as a result of allegations , the courts have applied the rules on the basis that there is a legitimate expectation of a hearing . |
| 25 | The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account . |
| 26 | In certain cases the courts have applied a " see-through " approach to trusteeship . |
| 27 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 28 | Thus for example where there is any ambiguity in domestic law the courts have said that they will resolve that ambiguity in such a way as to give effect to our international obligations . |
| 29 | In such cases the courts have said that the promise must be honoured . |
| 30 | The courts have said that the general skills of an employee are his property and the employer can only protect his property — business secrets . |