Example sentences of "law do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law did not forget her . |
| 2 | No less hierocratic than Pecham , Winchelsey eagerly supported the king with clerical taxes when the realm was in danger and when papal decree or canon law did not prevent it ; in 1295 and late in 1297 he evinced an almost unseemly — and not widely shared — enthusiasm to assist the king with clerical subsidies , but much of his tenure is remembered rather for his resistance to the crown 's efforts to tax the clergy . |
| 3 | Until 1926 English law did not recognize the institution of adoption . |
| 4 | However it did enable anyone who was in fact a trader , but the law did not recognize as such , to achieve something resembling the benefit of bankruptcy . |
| 5 | The election won , Baldwin prepared to move , both into 11 Downing Street , which was his by right , and into Chequers , which Bonar Law did not want . |
| 6 | Fahfakhs explained that Native Law did not cover this case . |
| 7 | The charge was dismissed on the ground that Michigan state law did not prohibit assisting someone to commit suicide . |
| 8 | The law did not specify which court should try most specific offences . |
| 9 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 10 | The attitude of the Bench to past proposals for the reform of the criminal law did not suggest that their judgment in such a matter was reliable , and those Government supporters in Parliament who had given most study to the matter were unanimously in favour of abolition . |
| 11 | The British Government stumbled at this hurdle , and in fact failed simply because domestic law did not regulate the circumstances in which the power could be exercised with sufficient clarity . |
| 12 | On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace . |
| 13 | Where a plaintiff claims in respect of the consequences of an injury caused to the foetus before birth , the following questions arise : ( 1 ) How can the defendant have owed the plaintiff a duty of care at a time when the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? ( 2 ) How can the defendant be liable for causing injury to the plaintiff when , at the time that the injury was caused , the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? |
| 14 | Where a plaintiff claims in respect of the consequences of an injury caused to the foetus before birth , the following questions arise : ( 1 ) How can the defendant have owed the plaintiff a duty of care at a time when the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? ( 2 ) How can the defendant be liable for causing injury to the plaintiff when , at the time that the injury was caused , the law did not recognise the plaintiff 's existence ? |
| 15 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge misdirected himself in holding that the preliminary issue should be answered in the affirmative and/or in giving judgment on the preliminary issue for the plaintiff and ( 2 ) the defendants were not liable in negligence to the plaintiff for any injury , loss or damage suffered by him while a foetus and en ventre sa mère since he was born prior to the passing of the Congenital Diabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 and the common law did not recognise such a cause of action . |
| 16 | It would be absurd if the law did not recognise the causal connection between these events despite its refusal to imply a non-competition restriction post employment . |
| 17 | Sir Matthew Hale was to ensure , however , that the law did not proceed in this direction . |
| 18 | However , due to changes made at the insistence of President Turgut Özal , the law did not apply to those accused of terrorism or crimes against the state , nor was it effective in those provinces under a state of emergency . |
| 19 | The charges of gross embezzlement and abuse of power carried a maximum sentence of 20 years ' imprisonment , but Zhivkov , aged 79 , looked unlikely to suffer this fate since Bulgarian law did not permit anyone over 80 to be sent to prison . |
| 20 | But the law did not take specific account of Arabs who left their homes for fear that Israeli forces might cause them harm — the reason most Arabs give for their sudden departure . |
| 21 | The revolutionaries ' lack of interest in a programme of political reform and gradual extension of the rule of law did not imply indifference to individual liberty . |
| 22 | Unfortunately Dutch law did not provide equality of treatment in every respect for the subsidiaries of foreign parent companies — certain social security rules were not applicable to them . |
| 23 | The Chancellor could grant a remedy to an individual where the common law did not provide a remedy , the aim being to attain justice in each case . |
| 24 | What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? |
| 25 | But in their place , Law did not fill his shadow cabinet with assertive businessmen . |
| 26 | It concluded that Community law did not impose requirements concerning the granting to ships of flag rights . |
| 27 | A QC claimed yesterday it would be ‘ absurd ’ if the law did not allow people forced to leave homes made uninhabitable by radioactive contamination to be compensated . |
| 28 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 29 | [ The Jewish law did not allow Jews to eat the flesh of some animals , such as the pig , which were called unclean . ] |
| 30 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |