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Example sentences for "facie"

Lexicographically close words:
facial; faciam; faciant; facias; faciat; faciebat; faciem; facienda; faciendo; faciendum
  1. In the early years of pagers and beepers, dope dealers were so enthralled this technology that owing a beeper was practically prima facie evidence of cocaine dealing.

  2. Possession of Phrack on one's board was prima facie evidence of a bad attitude.

  3. The above evidence seems sufficient to establish a prima facie case in favour of the Dom origin of these gipsy castes.

  4. But it seems prima facie more likely that the Hindu kingdoms of the Central Provinces should have been destroyed by an invasion of barbarians from without rather than by successful risings of their own subjects once thoroughly subdued.

  5. To accept the prima facie mode of assessment, but to limit the proportion of women who may be employed by any particular employer in any particular industry or grade.

  6. The existence of a very high profits return throughout a particular industry is an almost prima facie justification for a wage demand on the part of the wage earners employed in it.

  7. To quote from one of his decisions: "Preƫxisting or customary marginal differences are followed by this court as a prima facie rule, but the rule is only prima facie, and is subject to revision in the light of argument and evidence.

  8. The purpose of this interrogation (interrogatio) was to satisfy the president that there was a prima facie case to carry before the regular tribunal in open trial.

  9. If the interrogation convinced the president that the prosecutor had a prima facie case to take before the permanent tribunal, he framed a form of indictment called the inscriptio.

  10. This is the conclusion which would be come to by a plain person on a prima facie view of the facts, and Von Hartmann shows no reason for modifying it.

  11. I gave my name; I adduced the strongest prima facie grounds for the acceptance of my statements; but there was no rejoinder, and for the best of all reasons--that no rejoinder was possible.

  12. I am not committed to the vibration theory of memory, though inclined to accept it on a prima facie view.

  13. Is there any question that such a prima facie case could be made where the consideration of the protest would, of necessity, be ex parte?

  14. This is, that, where you have a bilateral contract, while the consideration of each promise is the counter promise, yet prima facie the payment for performance of one is performance of the other.

  15. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it is about as easy and cheap to prove at least a prima facie title as it is to prove possession.

  16. The cases which have raised difficulties needing explanation are those in which the court has ruled that there was prima facie evidence of negligence, or some evidence of negligence to go to the jury.

  17. In old days persons who were guilty of contempt in facie curiae had their right hands cut off, and Mr. Oswald prints as an appendix to his book certain clauses of an Act of Parliament of Henry VIII.

  18. Such contempts, committed as they are in facie curiae, are criminal offences, and may be punished summarily by immediate imprisonment without the right of appeal.

  19. There are, it seems to me, prima facie different kinds of causal laws, one belonging to physics and the other to psychology.

  20. Even now, however, it falls short of complete precision, since similarity is not prima facie measurable, and it would require much discussion to decide what we mean by greater or less similarity.

  21. It does not prove that there are no causal laws in psychology, as Bergson suggests; but it does prove that the causal laws of psychology are Prima facie very different from those of physics.

  22. Facta est terra in desolationem a facie irae Columbae: and again, Revertamur ad terram nativitatis nostrae a facie gladii Columbae.

  23. Such a marriage was, as a matter of course, prima facie valid, let what statements might be made to the contrary by those concerned or not concerned.

  24. The Italian woman was prima facie heiress to everything else,--except to such portion of the large personal property as the widow could claim as widow, in the event of her being able to prove that she had been a wife.

  25. Seeing what prima facie claims these ladies have, they are bound to allow them to live decently, in accordance with their alleged rank, till the case is settled.

  26. From time to time proposals have been made to deprive the superior courts of the power to deal summarily with contempts not committed in facie curiae, and to require proceedings on other charges for contempt to go before a jury.

  27. Trade between neutrals has a prima facie right to go on, in spite of war, without molestation.

  28. Inferior courts of record have, as a general rule, power to punish only those contempts which are committed in facie curiae or consist in disobedience to the lawful orders or judgments of the court.

  29. Except in cases of contempt in facie curiae evidence on oath as to the alleged contempt must be laid before the court, and application made for the "committal" or "attachment" of the offender.

  30. Contempt is usually dealt with summarily by the court contemned in the case of contempt in facie curiae.

  31. A court of quarter sessions has at common law a like power as to contempts in facie curiae and is said to have power to punish its officials for contempt in non-attendance or neglect of duty.

  32. But I looked upon beggary as, in all ordinary cases, prima facie evidence that there was something wrong behind it.

  33. Section 210 provides in part: "The current catalog of copyright entries and the index volumes herein provided for shall be admitted in any court as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein as regards any copyright registration.

  34. Section 210 provides: "The current catalog of copyright entries and the index volumes herein provided for shall be admitted in any court as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein as regards any copyright registration.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "facie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.