The phrase "committed upon" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It is not commonly used and may not convey the intended meaning clearly.
Example: "The decision was committed upon after much deliberation."
Alternatives: "committed to" or "made regarding".
He plans to challenge what he said is the misuse of Virginia's civil commitment laws, which determine a person can be involuntarily committed upon evidence that he or she has a mental illness and they may cause harm to themselves or others.
That is made clear by the reference to "massive crimes" being committed "upon instruction of a few persons who control the organisations that execute the orders".
Mrs. Yates might have been subjected to criminal penalties as well as civil coercion for the contempt she committed upon her first refusal to testify.
It extends well beyond its geographical region because of the human rights violations committed upon its people by an illegal military junta that thirsts only for money and power.
"It is indeed a characteristic of the situation in Libya that massive crimes are reportedly committed upon instruction of a few persons who control the organisations that execute the orders," Moreno-Ocampo said.
As to venue of prosecutions for offenses committed upon the high seas or elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any particular state or district see 28 U.S.C., 102, 28 U.S.C.A. § 102.
And it is what the unprincipled religious do when they willfully misinterpret sacred texts in an attempt to give validity to the atrocities they commit upon others.
But the vandalism Coetzee commits upon the easily checked facts of his own life ultimately serves to sharpen a question that does seem genuine, and genuinely self-indicting: Doesn't being a great artist demand, or at least imply, a certain greatness of spirit as well?
Where, however, the defendant assumes a duty to protect the plaintiff from that injury, as in this involuntary custody situation, I agree that the plaintiff should not lose his cause of action I disagree, however, that the other extreme should be adopted--that the defendant then assumes all responsibility, and liability, for injuries that the plaintiff intentionally commits upon himself.
The bill would have made domestic violence the 13th legal justification for divorce, as long as it was "established by clear and convincing evidence, where the perpetrator commits upon a spouse one of the following: attempting to cause, or purposely or knowingly causing, bodily injury to the spouse; or attempting by physical menace to put the spouse in fear of imminent serious bodily harm".
For its part, during all this time, the police have claimed that they stop people based upon reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed, based upon a description of a perpetrator, and as an effective tool to get guns off the street," Vincent Warren, CCR's executive director, recently told me.
