legal notion

The Colorado law differs from the traditional legal notion of self-defense in several ways.

So I suppose it was all right, at least according to the legal notions of hobbits.

This system broke down in the very late colonial period and after Independence the legal notion of race was eliminated.

Long-dormant legal notion used in court case involving theflyonthewall.com.

Why not invent some other legal concept or, for example, use the legal notion of partnership?

It was apparently correct and incontestable, according to the legal notions of hobbits.

The heart of the legal notion of partnership consists in the mutual trust and confidence of the participants.

This quaint legal notion preceded the Magna Carta by a considerable stretch.

Austin believed that the science of general jurisprudence consisted in the clarification and arrangement of fundamental legal notions.

Stock exchanges and complex financial instruments may have decoupled the legal notion of ownership from this commitment, but the underlying principle endures.

This has a basis in a traditional legal notion called the "Doctrine of Necessities" whereby a husband was responsible to provide necessary things for his wife.

Nevertheless he regarded both the legal notion of sanity and the medical notion of psychosis as being irrelevant to this case.

They said the Court should leave to Congress to decide "how modern economic theory and global financial markets require that established legal notions of fraud be modified."

Stefan Jurasinski argued that frið here could have carried the legal notion of protection (Latin: pax).

It introduced, among others, German legal notions such as rules of evidence as well as theories of joint property and vindication to French law.

Nobility is a historical, social and often legal notion, differing from high socio-economic status in that the latter is mainly based on income, possessions and/or lifestyle.

This definition may be distinguished from the legal notion of testimony in that the speaker does not have to make a declaration of the truth of the facts.

Their goals to redefine the legal notions of "refugee status" and attain a more comprehensive amnesty policy were not realized until the Refugee Act of 1980.

Encouraging innovation by protection of rich digital content through the traditional legal notions of copyright and patent while urging private solutions to reduce digital piracy without government mandates.

However, it does show that legal notions of causation are a complex mixture of factual causes and ideas of public policy relating to the availability of legal remedies.

Kyu Ho Youm noted that since the 1980s, copyright law has been transformed "from a largely ignored legal notion to a hotly debated concept in and out of court."

But in an area where little case law exists, the ruling by Judge John Ryan sets forth an important legal notion: Only municipalities, and not other governmental units, can file for bankruptcy.

Policies that seek an equality of outcome often require a deviation from the strict application of concepts such as meritocracy, and legal notions of equality before the law for all citizens.

Key among items in HR417 - the Tauzin bill - is a radical proposal that would eliminate the legal notion of "joint and several" liability in class action cases that allege securities fraud.

The trial, one of the nation's first war crimes tribunals, created enduring moral and legal notions and established the precedent that certain wartime behavior is unacceptable, regardless if committed under the orders of superiors or on one's own.