Sentence examples for whether the duty from inspiring English sources

In Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, the question was whether the duty of maintaining a seaworthy vessel extended to persons who performed the ship's service aboard the vessel but who were not employed directly by the shipowner.

The book evaluates whether the duty of utmost good faith (the cornerstone of insurance and takaful contracts) is effectively regulated and, in turn, observed by insurers (and takaful operators) and insureds alike in Malaysia.

There is some debate among lawyers about the extent to which an insurgency such as Afghanistan's technically constitutes an international armed conflict – and accordingly whether the duty to warn applies.

"This could really change the way we do medicine, because it is about the duty that doctors have to share genetic test results with relatives and whether the duty exists in law," said Anna Middleton, head of society and ethics research at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge.

The question is whether the duty, etc, grounds the right, or the right the duty.

Still, in cases where non-consent is void, one might wonder whether the duty to submit to another's authority follows directly from the consideration in virtue of which it is wrong for someone not to consent (see Sreenivasan 2009).

But whether the duties can help save the American solar industry is a matter of some dispute.

Other issues are whether the duties of chairman and chief executive should be split, and the composition of the board, including the possibility that the top executive be prevented from selecting his own directors.

Questions respecting this distinction have usually arisen in actions against the municipality for the negligence of its officers, in which its liability has been held to turn upon the question whether the duties of such officers were performed in the exercise of public functions of merely proprietary powers.

The Obama administration is still considering changes to this exemption and has asked for comments on whether the duties test is working as intended.

The question is not whether the duties fall within or without the scope of a secretary of state, but whether she favored one such duty over another as a result of this web of relationships.