wilful act

Many local people believe the shooting was nothing more than a wilful act of murder.

Saboteurs are people who commit wilful acts of damage.

An occupier is in such a case liable only where the injury is due to some wilful act involving something more than the absence of reasonable care.

Reference must be made to HO Claims if there is any doubt whatsoever regarding the repudiation of a claim on the basis of wilful act.

But Clinton's Justice Department followed up on the FBI's evidence and filed civil lawsuits charging Koch Industries with 3 15 wilful acts of pollution.

One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.

Robert held that such manifestations, even in sleep, amounted to wilful acts of self-display, issuing from son deep and tenacious demon within, and the flesh could be best eased of its devil by the scourge.

Firstly: the European Parliament proposed that ceilings should be placed on the financial liability of classification societies in the event of an accident caused by wilful act, omission or gross negligence in their survey work.

It was nearing the ninth hour, and Jesus, who had resisted sin throughout his life, now, because of his obedience, became sin itself - not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil.

The deliberate firing of 600 Kuwaiti oil wells by retreating Iraqi forces in 1991 created a major atmospheric pollution problem, and indicated the need to develop a strategy to try to lessen the likelihood of wilful acts of environmental damage being carried out during wartime.

We will insure you (other than as the result of a wilful act) for any enforced payment of Customs Duty after temporary importation of your motor cycle into any of the above countries provided the liability arises as a direct result of a claim under the policy.

A reasonable definition to cover wilful act would be 'any act, omission or behaviour which the insured customer knew, or should have known, was contrary to the terms and conditions of his employment or which he knew, or should have known, would lead to the termination of his employment'.

The term misprision can also be applied in some legal systems to a wilful act or omission by a person who is involved in or has knowledge of the facts of a crime, which causes in the end result an innocent person to be punished for the crime; e.g., a frameup.