Sentence examples for tortious conduct from inspiring English sources

An actor is liable for harm resulting to a third person from the tortious conduct of another "if he..

The compulsion, however, was created by the religious convictions of the Shorters not by the tortious conduct of defendant.

Nevertheless, some common-law jurisdictions notably the United States retain in their damage awards a strong element of punishment for certain types of tortious conduct.

It has therefore repeatedly been held that an employer has the right to seek local judicial protection from tortious conduct during a labor dispute.

The Monell Court concluded that Congress did not intend, in enacting § 1983, that municipalities be held vicariously liable for the tortious conduct of their employees.

In Kewin, supra, pp 420-421, this Court said that "absent allegation and proof of tortious conduct existing independent of the breach, * * * exemplary damages may not be awarded in common-law actions brought for breach of a commercial contract". Valentine failed to plead the requisite purposeful tortious conduct, and therefore she may not recover exemplary damages.

Drinking at inappropriate times, and behavior caused by reduced judgment, can lead to legal consequences, such as criminal charges for drunk driving or public disorder, or civil penalties for tortious behavior, and may lead to a criminal sentence.

As executives at major financial services firms increasingly come under scrutiny, one has to wonder whether Altman will be expanded to permit suspensions and bars -- at the SEC and beyond -- to be based upon beliefs of tortious or criminal conduct where corroborative formal complaints, indictments, pleas, and verdicts do not exist.

The appellate court reversed, noting that "there are no principles of law which allow a court to rule out certain tortious [i.e. liability-causing] conduct by reason of general roughness of the game or the difficulty of administering it," and that "[t]he general customs of football do not approve the intentional punching or striking of others".

Under these facts, which, of course, are distinguishable from those in the case at bar, Judge CARDOZO held there was no action ex contractu and no action ex delicto for a common law tort because the defendant's conduct was merely negative in withholding a benefit and it was not tortious.

Rather alleged "egregious conduct" constituting "breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, prima facie tort, tortious interference with contract and interference with prospective economic advantage, that have cost his significant financial loss and seriously damaged his reputation".