How To Use Prima facie In A Sentence
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Where there is an incursion into the airspace of a landowner within the reasonable height then this prima facie gives rise to claim to trespass:
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For millions of Americans witnessing the event, it was a prima facie case of police brutality.
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Does somebody who consents to a judgment have a prima facie right to costs, or not?
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The Maori Land Court has recognised that these lands and estates may include beaches and foreshores, and they seem to have a prima facie case… or at least they do if you think that there has been even one justified land claim under the Treaty.
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In a precisely similar way, we see the prima facie rightness of an act which would be the fulfilment of a particular promise.
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There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.
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Prima facie evidence, in fact, that the deceased died from a blow struck in self-defence by another prisoner whom he had attacked.
RIOT
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This strongly suggests that such rights are regarded as prima facie appurtenant to the residential unit, but to be excluded for the purposes of calculation.
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There is no dispute that the action is prima facie tortious, because it involves the union in inducing at least some of its members to breach their contracts of employment.
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Now, I grant that, generally, the major includes the minor; and a man's being able to read is _prima facie_ evidence that he knows his letters; yet it is possible that the modern many-times-great-grandson may indulge in as much laxity respecting _letters_, as his ancestor did with regard to _words_.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852
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The bryophytes that, prima facie, might be expected to be best adapted to photosynthesize under high light conditions are the species of mires, springs and other wet habitats, which remain constantly moist in full sun.
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Prima facie it seems that due to poor quality of construction work, the tank failed to hold 200 litre water and collapsed," he said, adding the tank was constructed by the 'mela' committee.
Analysis
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It is only what the law terms primâ facie evidence; that is, good until contradicted or explained.
The Book of Household Management
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There is a stricter test required for a Mareva injunction and for good reason - it restrains the defendant from dealing with his own property thereby requiring proof of a strong prima facie case.
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Circumstances might occasion modification of the principles, but there was nothing ignoble in the tradition of beginning with strong prima facie respect for inherited wisdom and being cautious in departing from it.
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Then isn't the fact that NYC public schools are structuring their salaries as if seniority made a big difference -- paying 50% more money to more-senior teachers who aren't any better -- prima facie evidence of mismanagement?
Vouchers and Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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There is prima facie evidence that he was involved in the fraud.
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Since the most familiar part of the _prima facie_ reality, the part almost exclusively noticed by the naive mind, is embraced within the field of the physical sciences, the term cosmology has come more definitely to signify the _philosophy of nature_.
The Approach to Philosophy
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The proposed amendment should be prima facie meritorious.
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Inclusion of the man's name on the birth register as the child's father is prima facie evidence of his paternity.
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In any prosecution under this section, the making or drawing, or uttering or delivery of a check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee because of lack of funds or credit, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and of knowledge
The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia
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Ross thinks that duty proper, as he calls it, is a quite different sort of thing from a prima facie duty; the notion of ˜duty™ in ˜prima facie duty™ is a different notion from that in ˜duty proper™.
Harold Arthur Prichard
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In this case the averment of the fact of manufacture meant that there was prima facie evidence of that fact before the court.
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Why do we not think in terms of your right, prima facie, unless it is a very clear case, to have the matter passed upon by a jury of fellow citizens?
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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I believe we have the prima facie evidence to charge you but I am not convinced, not yet convinced, that it would serve any useful purpose.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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I think that idea of where there's prima facie evidence that something has systemically badly gone wrong within a newspaper, the idea of sending a figure like that in, whose credibility is going to be dependent on not having the wool pulled over their eyes … is quite a good one and that the organisation where something has gone wrong should bear the cost of that.
Leveson inquiry: Murdoch editors warn of 'chilling effect' of state regulation
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If so recorded it shall be prima facie evi - dence of all facts essential to the validity of the title thereby Acts, 1933. —
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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Eternalism too, prima facie, would seem to have trouble accounting for the asymmetries built into possibilism, in addition to its implausible denial of passage.
Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
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This statement must be made in clear and definite terms, and there must further be some prima facie evidence that it has some foundation in fact.
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When a case falls within one of these situations or an analogous one and reasonable foreseeability is established, a prima facie duty of care may be posited.
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Prima facie he would appear to be guilty.
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Prima facie, ˜every tall sailor respects some doctor™ and ˜some short boy likes every politician™ exhibit common modes of linguistic combination.
Logical Form
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Or do you reject the new data entirely, because the fact that it contradicts the previous timeline is prima facie evidence of its erroneousness?
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But it's not always what it appears prima facie, which is what the Post sees.
Phronesisaical
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Does somebody who consents to a judgment have a prima facie right to costs, or not?
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Prima facie, the long-standing problems of trisecting an angle, squaring a circle, and doubling a cube are not questions of existence.
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I would argue that it's pretty much completely natural for a male to evaluate pretty much any female as a potential procreational partner on a sort of prima facie basis.
The several stages of grief
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For example, a prima facie plausible explanation of the alleged immunity of moral predicates from analysis in non-normative terms (non-naturalism in the first sense) would be that moral predicates denote non-natural properties (which entails non-naturalism in the third sense).
Moral Non-Naturalism
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There is prima facie evidence that he was involved in the fraud.
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If there is a prima facie case that raises serious concerns about patient safety, the student should be suspended until the matter is resolved.
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The principle of the prima facie credibility of mnemic presentation of past experience can't itself be justified inductively for Lewis, on pain of circularity.
Clarence Irving Lewis
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a prima facie case of murder
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Thus the position now acknowledged is that in an appropriate case a claimant in a negligence suit may establish a prima facie case by relying on the fact of the accident.
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Their right, prima facie, is to use any part of the way for the purpose of passing and repassing.
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The theoretical foundations for a currency union among independent nation-states are not strong prima facie.
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There is prima facie evidence that he was involved in the fraud.
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“abstractionist” view (following the terminology of Van Inwagen 1986), or “ersatz” view (in the terminology of Lewis 1986) is prima facie committed only to representations, as a modal fictionalist must it seems also be, but the abstractionist is a realist about possible worlds, and thus has prima facie a more straightforward approach than the fictionalist's.
Modal Fictionalism
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The state of the law is now in the absurd position of disallowing racial quotas, but virtually guaranteeing conviction for those who do not adhere to racial quotas on the grounds that the very fact of nonadherence is prima facie evidence of racial discrimination.
Government Is Right to Fight Discrimination in Lending
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The Vâkyakâra then propounds a pûrvapaksha (primâ facie view), 'Once he is to make the meditation, the matter enjoined by scripture being accomplished thereby, as in the case of the prayâjas and the like'; and then sums up against this in the words 'but (meditation) is established on account of the term meditation'; that means -- knowledge repeated more than once (i.e. meditation) is determined to be the means of Release.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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Nobody has suggested that a ship is prima facie heritable and I do not think such a suggestion could reasonably be made.
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Question: Should you be allowed to prevail in a lawsuit on the grounds that such a policy is "prima facie evidence of mismanagement" as Paul asserted in an earlier post?
Vouchers and Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It follows that, prima facie, the defendants would be liable at the suit of the testatrix's personal representatives for the loss caused to her estate by their failure to advise service of a notice of severance.
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In the civil law if a driver goes off the road on to the pavement and injures a pedestrian, or damages property, he is prima facie liable.
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There is insufficient evidence before us that one ingredient of the Section 5 offence was established to constitute a prima facie case.
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There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.
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If the national measure is based merely upon the international standard, but not in conformity with it, there is no presumption in its favour, but a complaining member must make a prima facie case in favour of inconsistency.
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If by comparison his record was tenurable, and people are on record as saying that his pro-ID views were a motivating factor, then I would have to say there is prima facie evidence of viewpoint discrimination.
Basu: Bias over views or credentials? - The Panda's Thumb
