Sentence examples for law responsibility from inspiring English sources
Medicine defines illness, the law, responsibility.
Under the law, responsibility for the cases falls to prosecutors in the defendant's home jurisdiction, meaning that law enforcement officials must conduct expensive investigations overseas under dangerous conditions, then bring evidence and witnesses back to the United States.
Under maritime law responsibility for collision damage is based upon the fault principle: a colliding vessel will not be held responsible for damage to another ship or to a fixed object such as a bridge, wharf, or jetty unless the collision is caused by a deficiency in the colliding vessel or by negligence or a willful act on the part of its navigators.
As stated earlier, in law responsibility for harm can rest on risk allocation as well as on causation.
Under the new federal education law, responsibility for accountability has now shifted back to the states, driven by conservatives who brandish "local control" as a sword to attack Washington.
John C.P. Goldberg, Anthony Sebok & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (Wolters Kluwer L. & Bus. 4th ed. 2016).
He is co-author of a leading casebook — Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (4th ed. 2016), as well as The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts (2010).
The Fourth Edition of Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress has been updated to reflect the very latest developments in tort law, including discussions of the draft provisions of the Third Restatement of Torts concerning intentional torts.
The federal agencies listed below also have some environmental law responsibilities.
Jackson told the court that once Congress passes laws, responsibility for enforcing them shifts to the executive, and the legislature ceases to have active involvement.
They insist that Laws is totally aware of the speech, and insist it is unthinkable for such a close ally of the deputy prime minister to be kept out of the loop on a speech so directly within Laws responsibilities.
