Sentence examples for acts committed outside from inspiring English sources
The new legislation would make the president subject to the normal criminal code for acts committed outside his official role.
"The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations does not provide for immunity of jurisdiction for acts committed outside the exercise of consular duties (Article 43)," the ministry said.
Nor, as a general rule, does a State have a legitimate concern in imposing punitive damages to punish a defendant for unlawful acts committed outside of the States jurisdiction.
Ron Motely, their counsel, said that the "precedent-setting" ruling would mean that anyone who aided and abetted crimes against humanity could no longer evade American justice.Under the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789, foreigners may sue each other in American courts even for acts committed outside America.
Perhaps that would be a positive step, but a new domestic statutory scheme would not make a civilian working for a civilian agency a lawful combatant entitled to immunity under the law of war for acts committed outside the United States.
"Nor, as a general rule, does a state have a legitimate concern in imposing punitive damages to punish a defendant for unlawful acts committed outside of the state's jurisdiction," Kennedy wrote.
M.L.S. called Diallo's behavior "an egregious act committed outside the normal course of play".
But U.S. plaintiffs have already led the way in seeking relief from U.S. courts even if the acts that caused them harm took place outside the U.S. Americans and others have successfully sued in the U.S. over acts committed by German companies in the Holocaust.
A homicide is "a volitional act committed by another person".
He is the first person to be tried under a 1991 war crimes act that permits prosecution for crimes committed outside Britain.
The complaint was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, meant to prosecute human rights abuses committed outside the United States.
