ground of action

It is a plea available only to the defendant; no plaintiff can offer it as a supplementary ground of action.

These paradoxes become with them serious grounds of action upon which they proceed in regulating the most important concerns of the state.

Unproof is the ground of action.

Practical laws, in so far as they are subjective grounds of actions, that is, subjective principles, are termed maxims.

'For the grounds of action, sir,' continued Dodson, with moral elevation in his air, 'you will consult your own conscience and your own feelings.

The court found that the ground of action for damages for negligent misstatement could and ought to be placed in the extended range of application of the lex Aquilia.

She would probably have the right to do so in the court in Germany which would have jurisdiction in relation to the place where the events happened, assuming that German law recognises the ground of action contemplated.

The court also undertook to keep the ground of action within reasonable limits by giving proper attention to the nature of the misstatement and the interpretation thereof, and by giving proper attention to the problem of causation.

I came, gentlemen,' said Mr. Pickwick, gazing placidly on the two partners, 'I came here, gentlemen, to express the surprise with which I received your letter of the other day, and to inquire what grounds of action you can have against me.'

It is only in so far as we are doing this, that we have any right to interfere: the defence of B is our only ground of action against A. A has as good a right to go to the devil, as we to go to glory; and neither knows what he does.

The court found that the Afrikaans term nalatige wanvoorstelling, a translation of "negligent misrepresentation," does not reflect, in connection with negligent misrepresentation as a delictual ground of action, the essential problem in South African law; it created instead the impression of a representation in a contractual context.