Example sentences of "[art] court [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herzen believed that the reputation of the courts suffered more from the way in which they transacted their business than from the verdicts at which they arrived . |
| 2 | Control in such instances was facilitated by the statute containing criteria which the courts felt capable of construing . |
| 3 | It was not until the later trials that the courts began to hear about ‘ covens ’ of witches . |
| 4 | However , it was not long before the courts began to use the provision in an attempt to curb insider trading . |
| 5 | Despite this the courts began to draw a dichotomy between administrative and judicial decisions , to take a narrow view of what constituted a judicial or quasi-judicial decision and to require this as a condition precedent for the application of a right to a hearing . |
| 6 | However once the courts began to be willing to reassess the constituent elements of jurisdiction , under the collateral fact doctrine , then it was natural also to require some proof that the condition was indeed fulfilled on the facts of the particular case . |
| 7 | However , in a number of cases the courts began to indicate that some control over subjective discretion might be attained . |
| 8 | The police began giving higher priority to investigating attacks on foreigners , and the courts began to impose harsher sentences ; the prison term of two years and eight months imposed on Dec. 9 on a prominent neo-Nazi leader in eastern Germany , Thomas Dienel , was the longest sentence imposed thus far for the offence of inciting racial hatred . |
| 9 | As the loss to an owner-occupier was economic loss , the courts sidestepped the problems this presented by framing the duty in terms of not constructing a building which was a danger to the health and safety of the occupier ( Anns v Merton London Borough Council [ 1978 ] AC 728 ) . |
| 10 | During the late nineteenth century some of the more manipulable aspects of the judicial system were abandoned , but even in the twentieth century the courts generated little moral authority . |
| 11 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 12 | Stephenson LJ stated that the courts sought refuge in " common sense rather than logic on the facts and circumstances of each case " . |
| 13 | Then clever lawyers devised methods of taking security over personal property , and the courts followed . |
| 14 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 15 | In consequence , the courts came to limit the cases in which recovery of an ultra vires impost was allowed to cases where there had been an extraction colore officii . |
| 16 | These cases show that the courts took a fairly hard line when it came to police discretion in this area . |
| 17 | However , an attractively designed computer is less likely to fall within the scope of registered designs because a person buying a computer is more interested in the performance of the computer ; its appearance is not important to a material extent , although it must be acknowledged that the Design Registry and the courts took a fairly liberal attitude prior to the changes to the 1949 Act and are likely to continue to be generous in this respect . |
| 18 | The retrenchment by the courts took place in two House of Lords cases but it is unlikely that the problem has been solved . |
| 19 | In Williams v Singer ( 1920 ) 7 TC 387 , the courts took a pragmatic approach to a particular trust and held that if income arises to trustees of a life interest trust but it is paid direct to the beneficiary ( so it never actually comes into the trustees ' hands ) then the trustees are not liable to tax on the money . |
| 20 | The courts went further and said that natural justice itself was not applicable . |
| 21 | The records of these numerous courts were often badly kept , and there might be damage or loss of the original wills which the courts kept under their custody . |
| 22 | In another group of cases the courts grappled somewhat variously with a new institution . |
| 23 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 24 | In Arco British Ltd v Sun Oil Britain Ltd ( 1988 ) unreported , Court of Appeal , 14 December , the courts investigated the technology of oil fields in some detail for the purpose of constructing the agreement : see further 7.2.4 . |
| 25 | After the courts intervened , the concern of the administration has to be not to leave itself open to any kind of charge of ignoring court rulings . |
| 26 | In the early 1970s the courts applied this test with extreme rigour . |
| 27 | The distinction appeared to be maintainable while the courts applied a very limited form of review . |
| 28 | The courts applied the normal Brodie principles to ascertain therefore the nature of the payments by the trustees to the beneficiary . |
| 29 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 30 | The courts made it very clear that they equated the interests of the state with the interests of the government then in power . |