basis of liability

Claims qualify for limitation whatever the basis of liability may be.

To put it another way, it does not alter the basis of liability.

The court left open whether another "independent basis of liability" could serve as legal grounds for an inappropriate takedown.

The original basis of liability under the rule was responsibility for the creation of an exceptional risk which happened to ripen into injury.

I do not propose to make any change in the existing basis of liability or the benefit arrangements for the remaining period of the community charge.

The basis of liability was permanent injury to the "reversion", that is the right to receive the chattel unimpaired at some future date.

The basis of liability is negligence - the conspirator is responsible for any crime that were a foreseeable consequence of the original conspiratorial agreement.

Otherwise the facts which constitute the basis of liability might be determined differently by juries in several actions, by which some creditors might obtain satisfaction and others be defeated.

However, because the market value of the liabilities is more easily determined than the market value of the assets, we generally prefer to estimate value on the basis of liabilities, not assets.

In Chysky, Cardozo joined Judge McLaughlin's opinion, which relied on Cardozo's statement in MacPherson that the basis of liability in that case was in tort, not contract.

According to the 1976 conventions, the basis of liability shall be subject to limitation of liability The range of claims in respect of which the right to limit liability is available is greater than those under the 1957 Convention.

In his opinion for the New York Court of Appeals, Chief Judge Sol Wachtler said that the basis of liability was not the sale of a particular pill to a particular patient, but rather "marketing the product" in the first place.

To some extent - or almost exclusively - we have done justice to this, but our desire to extend, on the basis of liability, protection of small investors by defining responsibilities more clearly - with reference, for example, to analysts or chief accountants - has, unfortunately, met with rejection.