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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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allow
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The revision would allow successful plaintiffs to keep enough of the award to pay their lawyers.
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Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
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Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover.
apply
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The plaintiff slipped and injured himself on an area of floor to which sawdust had not been applied .
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This is another case in which the Woolwich principle could readily have been applied in favour of the plaintiff had it existed.
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If the plaintiff is a visitor, then the 1957 Act will apply .
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This could apply where the plaintiff has made an unreasonable use of the product.
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Where the plaintiff was a visitor to the premises, the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 applies .
cause
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In law and in logic no damage can have been caused to the plaintiff before the plaintiff existed.
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That decision might be the same as the first one and cause the plaintiff the same loss.
entitle
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The Court of Appeal held that this was sufficient to entitle the plaintiffs to an interlocutory injunction.
hold
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It was held that the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence.
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It was held that the plaintiff had to show it was more probable than not that the injury was due to faulty manufacture.
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It was held that if the plaintiff had used ordinary care the accident would not have happened.
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However, he held the plaintiff to be 100% contributorily negligent.
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But, it was held , the plaintiff was not affected by the undue influence.
injure
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An overwhelming desire to injure the plaintiff rather than to inform the public would have to be proved.
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The plaintiff fell through a roof and was injured .
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A stone fell and injured the plaintiff and he sued his employers for negligence.
pay
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It was in the light of that breach that the defendants had refused to pay the plaintiff any post-determination commission.
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In paying the fees the plaintiffs were aware of the pending appeal and paid under protest.
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When the property is sold, the amount of the debt is paid to the plaintiff out of the proceeds of sale.
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The moneys were paid over by the plaintiffs to avoid the apprehended consequence of a refusal to submit to the authority.
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This fact was reflected in the commission structure that the defendants agreed to pay the plaintiff .
prove
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The plaintiff had to prove that the breach of duty was at least a material contributory cause of the harm.
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The plaintiff must prove that but for the breach of statutory duty he would not have suffered the injury.
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It is also necessary for the plaintiff to prove causation.
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This is the exception, however, and normally the plaintiff must prove the negligent act or omission.
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The plaintiff must prove that the defendant fell below the relevant standard of care.
recover
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If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all.
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Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover .
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Moreover, it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative.
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The plaintiff can only recover on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of the defendant's.
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Two of his victims successfully sued him and the plaintiff then tried to recover the damages from the defendant.
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The plaintiffs failed to recover as no tangible injury had been done to their property - no apparatus had been damaged.
seek
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The plaintiffs had sought about 1.3 billion yen in compensation.
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In the civil case, the plaintiffs sought to shield him from such harsh treatment by limiting the scope of his testimony.
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The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop a reference to an expert proceeding.
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The trial, in which the plaintiffs will seek yet-unspecified monetary damages, is scheduled to start April 2&038;.
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The plaintiffs seek to investigate what they consider to be a serious and complicated fraud.
suffer
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But these difficulties should not be exaggerated: most of them are, after all, suffered by the plaintiff as well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is that legal fiction which the health authority relies upon in denying liability to the plaintiff .
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So the plaintiffs called Fung back on their rebuttal case to tell jurors he had goofed.
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Ten plaintiffs are suing the companies for damages from the blast.
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The plaintiffs devoted much of their rebuttal case Wednesday to damage control.
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The defendants supplied a chemical to the plaintiffs but failed to warn that it was liable to explode on contact with water.
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This could apply where the plaintiff has made an unreasonable use of the product.