Example sentences of "a [noun] at common law " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow view would be that if contributory negligence was not a defence at common law , then it will not be available under the Act . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Whether the right to free speech , whether as a right at common law , or under article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) , led to a different result in the case of a non-trading corporation which was also a public authority . |
| 3 | ‘ When will an offensive odour amount to a nuisance at common law , in the absence of actual physical damage to property ? ’ i.e. ‘ When will the interference caused by the perception of the odour be ‘ unreasonable ’ in the eyes of the law ? ’ |
| 4 | Often odour nuisance is the result of emissions from several sources , none of which alone would amount to a nuisance at common law , but should the aggregate odour amount to a nuisance at law , it is no defence that the nuisance was caused by many . |
| 5 | A water authority will , therefore , be in breach of its statutory duty if it permits obnoxious odours , which amount to a nuisance at common law , to emanate either from its sewage disposal works , or due to any recycling of treated or untreated sewage sludge on to farm land , and it is open to a local authority or person aggrieved , in the absence of informal agreement perhaps via a Liaison Committee , to seek an injunction to restrain the water authority from causing the nuisance . |
| 6 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 7 | It was further decided that such watching and besetting might be a nuisance at common law and illegal on that ground also . |
| 8 | In Tynan v. Balmerls ( 1966 ) forty pickets in a continuous circle around a factory ( which had the effect of sealing off the highway ) were held not to be legalized by the Act of 1906 because their action was a nuisance at common law and an unreasonable use of the highway . |
| 9 | As to the former , before 1968 robbery was a felony at common law and , according to Archbold , Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 36th ed. ( 1966 ) , p. 644 , para. 1761 , consisted |
| 10 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 11 | ‘ That a corporation at common law can sue in respect of a libel there is no doubt . |
| 12 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 13 | ‘ That a corporation at common law can sue in respect of a libel there is no doubt . |
| 14 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 15 | Such a corporation , it was held , should have the same power to maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured as the law allowed to a corporation at common law , and the power to sue for libel or slander for the protection of its reputation in the carrying on of its business . |
| 16 | ‘ That a corporation at common law can sue in respect of a libel there is no doubt , ’ stated Pollock C.B. in Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co . |
| 17 | This is that a breach of a statutory requirement constitutes negligence where the statute was passed to prevent a mischief in respect of which the defendant was already under a duty at common law . |