Sentence examples for defense of assumption from inspiring English sources

Plaintiff misreads Lyons in asserting that it abandoned the defense of assumption of risk in toto.

The defense of assumption of risk was, for the most part, held to be still available to the employer.

Plaintiff directs our attention to the following language in Lyons in which this court predicted that enactment of the comparative negligence statute would sound the death knell for the defense of assumption of risk.

The view was that nineteenth century negligence doctrine, including duty doctrines, as well as the defenses of assumption of risk and contributory negligence, systematically accorded undue protection to landowners and firms, either out of medieval notions of privilege (in the case of the former) or a pro-entrepreneur, every-man-for-himself ideology (in the case of the latter).

Jurisdictions with comparative negligence statutes have generally held that the defense of express assumption of the risk survives the enactment of these statutes.

Courts and commentators have struggled with the issue as to whether and to what extent the defense of "reasonable" assumption of risk survives the enactment of comparative negligence statutes.

Conrad does not present a detailed defense of his assumptions about the ontology of ideal objects, but clearly shared Husserl's aversion to "psychologism" (for background, see the entry on psychologism).

In recent decades, the most influential defense of the philosophical assumptions of the traditional theory has been Michael Walzer's classic book, "Just and Unjust Wars," which also presents his understanding of the theory's implications for a range of issues, such as preemptive war, humanitarian intervention, terrorism, and nuclear deterrence.

The same result would be reached if the defense were presented in terms of assumption of risk, that is, that one who ventures upon the highway without buckling up is voluntarily assuming the risk of more serious injuries resulting from a possible accident proximately caused by the negligence of another.

The White House is mad at George Stephanopoulos for conditioning his defense of Mr. Clinton on the assumption that Mr. Clinton is telling the truth.

The empirical assumption behind the defense of elite rule at the time was the unequal distribution of the finest human traits.