Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [vb pp] liable " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 2 | An interim payment may be ordered by the court on application , but an order will only be made when it is clear that the defendant will be held liable at trial . |
| 3 | In deceit cases the defendant will be held liable for all the loss flowing from the fraudulent statement ( Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd [ 1969 ] 2 QB 158 ) . |
| 4 | The Financial Secretary during the course of the relevant Act — Finance Act 1936 , s18 at that time — gave an assurance that only a transferor or his spouse could be made liable under what is now s739 ( HC Deb Vol 313 , cols 676 , 678 and 689 ) an assurance which was repeated by the Attorney General ( HC Deb Vol 313 , col 701 ) . |
| 5 | To support manslaughter liability in these cases one would have to espouse the draconian principle that a person should be held liable for all the consequences of any wrongful act . |
| 6 | In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all . |
| 7 | The auctioneer may be held liable in any case on the basis that he had contracted to sell the goods to the highest bidder ( see Warlow v Harrison ( 1859 ) 1 E & E 309 ) . |
| 8 | It is clear from s.1(2) that once deemed an insider , the individual can be held liable for dealings in the securities of companies with which he has no direct relationship . |
| 9 | Conversely , a carrier who issues a non-negotiable bill in a foreign port naming a United States importer as consignee may be held liable in the United States for refusing to deliver the goods to the United States consignee who does not surrender the bill of lading . |
| 10 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |