First, criminal law theorists often focus their discussion on a fairly small range of traditional 'mala in se' offences involving conduct that can plausibly be seen as being pre-legally wrongful, and that typically either actually brings about or is very closely related to the mischief that warrants the conduct's criminalization.
Yet she persuaded a Probate Court judge last April to declare Bianca legally dead, to support the wrongful-death suit she has filed against school officials because they failed to report the girl's absence.
Furthermore, at least in some countries (e.g. Sweden), it is officially considered a questionable or even wrongful intervention, albeit not legally prohibited.
His lawyer will ask a judge to declare Mr. Patz's missing son, Etan, legally dead, so that Mr. Patz can pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against a convicted pedophile in Pennsylvania who he believes killed the boy.
As to whether proper medical attention might have yielded the delivery of two healthy baby boys, lawyers argued that the question was ultimately irrelevant, because wrongful death can apply only to people and, legally speaking, fetuses aren't human lives.
And although finance companies cannot legally collect payment without title, and can be held responsible for wrongful acts by the dealer, attorneys say lenders often demand money from buyers by threatening their credit ratings.
One is the insuring clause, in which the insurer agrees to pay on behalf of the insured all sums that the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury, sickness or disease, wrongful death, or injury to another person's property.
It was on wrongful convictions.
In return, he waived all rights to sue for wrongful termination, and both he and the bank promised to say nothing about the reasons for his departure to anyone but his accountant and family members unless legally compelled to.
