The Canadian Law Times, Volume 37Carswell, 1917 - Law From 1900 to 1908 includes the "Annual digest of Canadian cases ... decided in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and in the courts of the provinces ... Edited by Edward B. Brown." |
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... tion IV . might be commenced at once by the various International Law Societies of the allied and neutral Powers , such for instance as the Société Française de Droit International in France , the American Society of International Law ...
... tion IV . might be commenced at once by the various International Law Societies of the allied and neutral Powers , such for instance as the Société Française de Droit International in France , the American Society of International Law ...
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... tion that the plaintiff's negligence was proximate and efficient in its character , is logically no more incompatible with or exclusive of a finding of ' ultimate ' negligence on the part of the defendants than is the finding of primary ...
... tion that the plaintiff's negligence was proximate and efficient in its character , is logically no more incompatible with or exclusive of a finding of ' ultimate ' negligence on the part of the defendants than is the finding of primary ...
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... tion of the police or officials . It deprives the Courts in reality of any opportunity of inquiring into the reality of the alleged offence , it creates by statute a new possibility additional to those always inherent in circumstances ...
... tion of the police or officials . It deprives the Courts in reality of any opportunity of inquiring into the reality of the alleged offence , it creates by statute a new possibility additional to those always inherent in circumstances ...
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tion . We all know that statements made to - day con- cerning the Germans or their ruler may , and have , re- sulted in prison sentences , whereas two years ago it is improbable that a jury would have considered them as of serious ...
tion . We all know that statements made to - day con- cerning the Germans or their ruler may , and have , re- sulted in prison sentences , whereas two years ago it is improbable that a jury would have considered them as of serious ...
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... tion as good , it supplies any defect , if defect there be , in the powers of the company . VISCOUNT HALDANE : -Not , to my mind , in the same corpora- tion . It must be that the existence of a corporation is determined by the law of ...
... tion as good , it supplies any defect , if defect there be , in the powers of the company . VISCOUNT HALDANE : -Not , to my mind , in the same corpora- tion . It must be that the existence of a corporation is determined by the law of ...
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Page 276 - WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom...
Page 409 - They deem it their duty, however, to place on record their view that any such readjustment, while thoroughly preserving all existing powers of self-government and complete control of domestic affairs, should be based upon a full recognition of the Dominions as autonomous nations of an Imperial Commonwealth...
Page 432 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces...
Page 432 - The Administration of Justice in the Province, including the Constitution, Maintenance, and Organization of Provincial Courts, both of Civil and of Criminal Jurisdiction, and including Procedure in Civil Matters in those Courts.
Page 463 - When the provisions of a statute relate to the performance of a public duty and the case is such that to hold null and void acts done in neglect of this duty would work serious general inconvenience, or injustice to persons who have no control over those entrusted with the duty, and at the same time would not promote the main object of the legis(1) (1917) AC 170. lature, it has been the practice to hold such provisions to be directory only, the neglect of them, though punishable, not affecting the...
Page 534 - But if a situation were to be forced upon us in which peace could only be preserved by the surrender of the great and beneficent position Britain has won by centuries of heroism and achievement, by allowing Britain to be treated, where her interests were vitally affected, as if she were of no account in the Cabinet of nations, then I say emphatically that peace at that price would be a humiliation intolerable for a great country like ours to endure.
Page 200 - That the Father and Grandfather, and the Mother and Grandmother, and the Children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent Person or other poor Person not able to work, being of a sufficient Ability, shall, at their own Charges, relieve and maintain every such poor Person...
Page 281 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Page 371 - Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.
Page 756 - Congress resides the authority "to raise and support armies" and "to provide and maintain a navy," and to. make rules for the "government and regulation of the land and naval forces :" and as a safeguard against military domination the power to raise and support armies...