lawful cause
legal cause

Failure to comply with such a request without lawful cause attracts criminal liability.

Only the lawful cause may be admitted.

Imprisonment without lawful cause is a tort called false imprisonment.

For there is no question, but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of a war.

False imprisonment "is the complete deprivation of his liberty for any time, however short, without lawful cause ... There need not be any actual imprisonment in the ordinary sense."

Seventh: By imprisonment of our citizens without lawful cause; and claiming the right of trying said citizens by a military court for offense of a character cognizable by the civil authority alone.

William A. Straus, the former owner of a one-bedoom apartment at the Upper East Side building is claiming he lost $82,000 because his original buyer was rejected without lawful cause and it took him eight months longer to sell.

"You had no legal cause to stop and board my vessel."

We're going to honor the contract, at least until they give us a legal cause to break it."

So there was no further gain in prolonging a lost legal cause.

Tribe is noted for his extensive support of liberal legal causes.

"You have no legal cause to detain me, by your own admission.

Torture involves deliberately inflicting physical or mental pain on a person without legal cause.

The authorities will permit it; her illness will be sufficient legal cause.

Both prosecution and defense attorneys have the right to remove juror candidates without having to prove legal cause or give an explanation.

If no derisive smiles were seen, then there was no legal cause for duel.

Case bond is a non-recourse purchase of an assignment interest in a legal cause of action.

Brennan went on to criticize the Court's historical analysis of traditional equitable and legal causes of action.

This is an element of Legal Cause.

The court found that Day suffered from a bruised ego but that the facts failed to establish a legal cause of action.

Gilliam exemplifies that even if moral rights are not explicitly recognized they can be protected under different legal causes of action.

Some legal causes of action can survive the death of the claimant or plaintiff, for example actions founded in contract law.

The CRC took up legal causes of those they considered unjustly accused.

The court specifically states that the public may have base for a legal cause of action if its fair use right is infringed by the copyright holder.

Broadcasters have further participated in assessing the website prior to launch, and have been reported as having identified no legal cause to oppose the service.

"I will respect what the tribunal if the tribunal finds legal cause and sufficient motive to recount the votes of a polling place," he said.

Traditional Risk Management focuses on risks stemming from physical or legal causes such as natural disasters, fires, deaths and criminal trials.

The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s.

I certainly regard it as sufficient legal cause for suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus."

The book that Mr. Leavitt thought he wrote - a recasting of an admired precursor's work - has instead become a legal cause celebre.

The Flag of Compassion is a means to express the general human feeling of compassion over and above politics, legal causes, religion, race and gender.