Example sentences of "to the court " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a statement read to the court , Shooter described his crime as ‘ a cry for help from someone who could no longer handle the pressures of life ’ . |
| 2 | The medical report shown to the court from the King 's Lynn Health Authority on the girl 's mental faculties assessed her on a variety of indicators , including mental arithmetic , reading ages , concepts , and spelling . |
| 3 | Failing that , the case will be referred to the court by the commission , or by the Government , or be decided by a committee of ministers . |
| 4 | Fiat 's defence lawyers hailed the court 's move as a sensible conclusion which would leave it to the court of appeal to determine whether the four defendants should be tried in another city . |
| 5 | However , the document adds : ‘ Those who practise in the courts owe duties to the court in the interests of justice ’ . |
| 6 | LORD JUSTICE RALPH GIBSON said that neither the plaintiff nor the defendant applied to the court at any time before judgment for an order under Order 5 , rule 5(2) appointing the defendant to represent all or any of the members of the management committee . |
| 7 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 12 October : His Excellency Senhor Luis Neto-Kiambata was received in audience by The Prince of Wales and The Prince Edward , Counsellors of State acting on behalf of The Queen , and presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Credence as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the People 's Republic of Angola to the Court of St James 's . |
| 8 | The young man 's solicitor explained to the court how badly he was hurt in the accident . |
| 9 | Later , in the Court of Appeal , Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , refused a stay in the order pending an appeal , but agreed to allow the notes to be given to the court in a sealed envelope , to be returned unopened if the appeal succeeded . |
| 10 | It followed that while the Home Secretary was free to take account of the terms of the Convention , he was not obliged to do so and that the terms of the Convention were irrelevant to the court 's decision . |
| 11 | The general principle is that advocates ' rights should be determined only by whether they are properly trained and members of a professional body whose rules of conduct are ‘ appropriate in the interests of justice in relation to the court or proceedings concerned ’ . |
| 12 | Court staffing levels would be increased by 400 in the next financial year and an extra £2 million had been allocated to the court service for this financial year . |
| 13 | The bill also allows the Lord Chancellor to make rules restricting the present automatic right of appeal to the Court of Appeal in some types of case . |
| 14 | The bill also allows the Lord Chancellor to restrict the automatic right of appeal to the Court of Appeal . |
| 15 | Thereafter we witness Rose being guided by the Fool towards Pagoda-land , where she finds the salamander , then back to the court where her kindness to both the salamander and her persecuted old father is rewarded by the transformation of the Prince to his real shape and his victory over all contenders to win Rose , rescue her father and banish Epine . |
| 16 | What had to be demonstrated to the court was that the delay complained of had produced genuine prejudice and unfairness . |
| 17 | In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber . |
| 18 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 19 | Under the old system A takes proceedings in the Common Law Courts to establish his rights ; B has no legal defence ; he must go to the Court of Chancery to get , among other things , an injunction to forbid A to go on . |
| 20 | An Act passed in that year gave power to the court to make an adoption order . |
| 21 | In any case a company formed under the Companies Act has a considerable power of altering the objects stated in the Memorandum of Association which is signed by its first members at the formation of the company , subject to the power of the holders of fifteen per cent of its shares or debentures to apply to the court to cancel an alteration . |
| 22 | Whether a mortgage is legal or equitable , the mortgagee can enforce his security by applying to the court for an order for foreclosure . |
| 23 | He may apply to the court if his right to redeem is disputed . |
| 24 | Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal . |
| 25 | At any time after adjudication a bankrupt may apply to the court for his discharge , which , if granted , will enable him to start again , stripped of his property , but ( with certain exceptions ) free from any claim which might have been proved against him in the bankruptcy . |
| 26 | But on and after that date the Inheritance ( Family Provision ) Act 1938 gives to the dependants of a testator , and the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 gives to those of an intestate , power to apply to the court for a reasonable maintenance out of the estate , if such is not provided by the will , or the law of intestacy , or the combined operation of will and law where the intestacy was only partial . |
| 27 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 28 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 29 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 30 | Although the DUP condemned the use of uncorroborated evidence in the ‘ supergrass ’ trials , it was Seawright who went to the court day after day to offer sympathy for the families of loyalist prisoners . |