Sentence examples for foreseeability and from inspiring English sources

The legal concepts of foreseeability and proximity are discussed in the context of sleep-related accidents.

The result of these mistakes is a doctrine of joint criminal enterprise that fails to offer a sufficiently nuanced treatment of intentionality, foreseeability and culpability.

Finally, where liability without fault has not been introduced in an open manner, such notions as fault, foreseeability, and causation become stretched in an attempt to do justice to the victim while allegedly remaining faithful to a fault-based law of torts.

A concurring justice expressed reservation that the issues of proximate cause, foreseeability, and remoteness could "alone provide an adequate guide for distinguishing, on a normative, pre-event basis, between the classes of cases in which recovery will be allowed and those in which it will not". Id. at 1035 (Garwood, J., concurring).

Shyam Balganesh, "Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives" (John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 400, 2008).

IDT defines a series of innovation factors that influence user acceptance behaviors, including relative advantage, compatibility, individual image, complexity, trialability, foreseeability, and result presentation.

This Article extends the law-and-economics literature on the foreseeability doctrine and on contract default rules more generally.

Some of the more important basic legal concepts that should be clearly understood are foreseeability, reasonableness and due care.

1974), found that the routine reliance by commercial fishermen upon an ability to fish in unpolluted waters satisfied the foreseeability requirement and justified an award of economic damages as an exception to the general rule.

Economic analysts have responded to this problem alternately by (i) offering an efficiency rationale for the foreseeability limitation and (ii) arguing that the duty requirement is an imperfection in tort law.

Oregon's "foreseeability standard" means that "if a harm is foreseeable and you have the ability to prevent it, you have a duty," Mr. McDougal said.