The Canadian Law Times, Volume 33Carswell, 1914 - 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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... nation at large . COMPARISON OF FAILURES IN CANADA WITH THOSE IN ENGLAND AND IN THE UNITED STATES . That a bankruptcy law does not tend to increase the number of failures is apparent from a comparison between the number of failures in ...
... nation at large . COMPARISON OF FAILURES IN CANADA WITH THOSE IN ENGLAND AND IN THE UNITED STATES . That a bankruptcy law does not tend to increase the number of failures is apparent from a comparison between the number of failures in ...
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... nations which are to help the cause of universal peace . For the proposition is that the Senate of the United States . may not consent with the President of the United States VOL . XXXIII . C.L.T. - 5 Then again why should bank managers ...
... nations which are to help the cause of universal peace . For the proposition is that the Senate of the United States . may not consent with the President of the United States VOL . XXXIII . C.L.T. - 5 Then again why should bank managers ...
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... nations ; but once in a while there comes an opportunity that seems to be a great step forward , and when that opportunity is lost , when the step which might have been taken is not taken , the hearts of those whose hopes were high are ...
... nations ; but once in a while there comes an opportunity that seems to be a great step forward , and when that opportunity is lost , when the step which might have been taken is not taken , the hearts of those whose hopes were high are ...
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... nations with arbitration , is an ob- struction not only to the progress of the United States but to the progress of the world in the matter of peace , for the reason that the nations of the world look to the United States , and properly ...
... nations with arbitration , is an ob- struction not only to the progress of the United States but to the progress of the world in the matter of peace , for the reason that the nations of the world look to the United States , and properly ...
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itself and the nation to future arbitration as more important than the attribute of full national sovereignty . If we are a nation at all , we must have power to bind ourselves as a nation to contracts that will not only uplift nations ...
itself and the nation to future arbitration as more important than the attribute of full national sovereignty . If we are a nation at all , we must have power to bind ourselves as a nation to contracts that will not only uplift nations ...
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Page 68 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise.
Page 68 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy...
Page 359 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, and if none, then of such employee's parents, and if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee...
Page 1170 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line, affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters...
Page 1156 - I understand the principle of all fiscal legislation, it is this: if the person sought to be taxed comes within the letter of the law he must be taxed, however great the hardship may appear to the judicial mind to be. On the other hand, if the Crown, seeking to recover the tax, cannot bring the subject within the letter of the law, the subject is free, however apparently within the spirit of the law the case might otherwise appear to be.
Page 143 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 741 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the" world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 747 - The contracting powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.
Page 216 - Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms...
Page 771 - The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.