Example sentences of "[conj] at common " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duty to ensure that the premises are reasonably safe , either under the OLA 1957 or at common law , only requires the occupier to do that which is reasonably practicable to ensure the safety of visitors to the premises . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom there is no such positive statement of this right , although at common law an assembly or procession is not unlawful per se , unless , for example , it causes an obstruction or constitutes a public nuisance . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that at common law there is no effective remedy for an individual who is harmed due to insider dealing . |
| 4 | The House of Lords decisively rejected Mrs. Gillick 's contentions and held that at common law a child of sufficient intelligence and understanding ( the ‘ Gillick competent ’ child ) could consent to treatment , notwithstanding the absence of the parents ' consent and even an express prohibition by the parents . |
| 5 | It was , however , argued that at common law and in equity rescission can only be granted if full restitution can be made by both parties . |
| 6 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 7 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 8 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 9 | In two respects , however , the definition is wider than at common law in that the Act ( a ) renders a species dangerous if it poses a threat to property and ( b ) allows for a species to be considered dangerous if it is not commonly domesticated in Britain , even though it may be so domesticated overseas . |
| 10 | Because innkeepers are under specific duties imposed upon them by the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 and at common law , they in return have certain rights which they may exercise over and above those which proprietors who are not innkeepers may exercise . |
| 11 | An arbitrator is immune from suit , both by statute and at common law . |
| 12 | However , the contract would still be void , because at common law a contract is void if it is made on a false assumption that its subject-matter is in existence . |
| 13 | If it is the duty of such a party to a contract , whether at common law or under statute , to disclose in defined circumstances confidential information , then he must do so , and any express contract to the contrary would be illegal and void . |
| 14 | However , the form of section 2(2) means that with regard to liability for animals not belonging to a dangerous species the position will be fundamentally the same as at common law , since the damage must be of a kind made likely by the characteristics known to the keeper . |