The Grammar of Rights Sample Clauses

The Grammar of Rights. The requirements of practical reasonableness are aptly described by the rights discourse. In order to precisely analyze relationships of rights and duties, different jurists have developed terminological systems of expression. Many current natural rights scholars have followed Finnis’ lead in using Hohfeldian rights to make intelligible the relations of rights. These postulates, though seemingly complex, actually help reduce rights-claims to their most basic, three-term relationships: a rights claimant, a respondent, and a particular duty. Developed by the jurist Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx in his work Fundamental Legal Conceptions, the fundamental postulates of the system are as follows. All rights-claims can be entirely reduced to ascriptions of one or some combination of four rights: claim-right, liberty, power, and immunity. For the purposes of human rights claims, only the former two Hohfeldian rights are required to adequately express the claimant-respondent relation.41 The logical relations between these rights are: 39 Ibid, 207. 40 Grotius, De Xxxx Xxxxx xx Xxxxx, I, I, iii. 41 Finnis, Natural Law, 200.
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  • Nonwaiver of Rights No waiver of default by either party of any of the terms, covenants, and conditions hereof to be performed, kept, and observed by the other party shall be construed as, or shall operate as, a waiver of any subsequent default of any of the terms, covenants, or conditions herein contained, to be performed, kept, and observed by the other party.

  • Waiver of Rights No right conferred on either party under this Contract shall be deemed waived, and no breach of this Contract excused, unless such waiver is in writing and signed by the party claimed to have waived such right. Neither the State’s review, approval or acceptance of, nor payment for, the services required under this Contract shall be construed to operate as a waiver of any rights under this Contract or of any cause of action arising out of the performance of this Contract, and the Contractor shall be and remain liable to the State in accordance with applicable law for all damages to the State caused by the Contractor’s negligent performance of any of the services furnished under this Contract.

  • XXXX OF RIGHTS 11.1 Whenever a law enforcement officer is under investigation and subject to interrogation by members of his or her agency for any reason, which could lead to disciplinary action, demotion, or dismissal, such interrogation shall be conducted under the following conditions:

  • Annual Notification of Rights If the LEA has a policy of disclosing Education Records and/or Student Data under FERPA (34 CFR § 99.31(a)(1)), LEA shall include a specification of criteria for determining who constitutes a school official and what constitutes a legitimate educational interest in its annual notification of rights.

  • STATEMENT OF RIGHTS 4.1. The State of Vermont reserves the right to obtain clarification or additional information necessary to properly evaluate a proposal. The Contractor may be asked to give a verbal presentation of its proposal after submission. Failure of Contractor to respond to a request for additional information or clarification could result in rejection of the Contractor’s proposal. To secure a project that is deemed to be in the best interest of the State, the State reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids, in whole or in part, with or without cause, and to waive technicalities in submissions. The State also reserves the right to make purchases outside of the awarded contracts where it is deemed in the best interest of the State.

  • Amendment of Rights Any provision of this Agreement may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of each party hereto.

  • Variation of order of application The Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders and the Swap Bank, by notice to the Borrowers, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties provide for a different manner of application from that set out in Clause 17.1 either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories.

  • Summary of Rights As soon as practicable after the Record Time, the Company will mail a letter summarizing the terms of the Rights to each holder of record of Common Stock as of the Record Time, at such holder's address as shown by the records of the Company.

  • Procedure for Surrender of Rights Rights may be surrendered to the Right Agent, together with a written request for exchange or transfer, and thereupon the Right Agent shall issue in exchange therefor one or more new Rights as requested by the registered holder of the Rights so surrendered, representing an equal aggregate number of Rights; provided, however, that in the event that a Right surrendered for transfer bears a restrictive legend, the Right Agent shall not cancel such Right and issue new Rights in exchange therefor until the Right Agent has received an opinion of counsel for the Company stating that such transfer may be made and indicating whether the new Rights must also bear a restrictive legend.

  • Acknowledgement of Rights The Company acknowledges that, with respect to any Securities held by UCBH Trust Co. or a trustee of such trust, if the Property Trustee of such Trust fails to enforce its rights under this Indenture as the holder of the Securities held as the assets of UCBH Trust Co. any holder of Capital Securities may institute legal proceedings directly against the Company to enforce such Property Trustee's rights under this Indenture without first instituting any legal proceedings against such Property Trustee or any other person or entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such event is attributable to the failure of the Company to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities when due, the Company acknowledges that a holder of Capital Securities may directly institute a proceeding for enforcement of payment to such holder of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities having a principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital Securities of such holder on or after the respective due date specified in the Securities.

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