The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court of Justice for Ontario, Volume 28Rowsell & Hutchison, 1898 - Law reports, digests, etc Reports of cases decided in the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court of Justice. |
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Page 346 - It is indeed the general rule that a policy, and the money to become due under it, belong, the moment it is issued, to the person or persons named in it as the beneficiary or beneficiaries; and that there is no power in the person procuring the insurance, by any act of his, by deed or by will, to transfer to any other person the interest of the person named.
Page 457 - A married woman shall be capable of entering into and rendering herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued, either in contract or in tort, or otherwise, in all respects as if she were a feme sole...
Page 70 - A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 590 - Every person who obtains a certificate of dismissal, or is convicted under this Act, shall be released from all further or other criminal proceedings for the same cause.
Page 457 - Every contract entered into by a married woman shall be deemed to be a contract entered into by her with respect to and to bind her separate property, unless the contrary be shown.
Page 364 - ... particular place, it must be presented for payment at that place in order to render the maker liable.
Page 197 - There is a presumption (but no more) that it is a penalty when a single lump sum is made payable by way of compensation on the occurrence of one or more or all of several events, some of which may occasion serious and others but trifling damage.
Page 54 - that where money is paid to another under the influence of a mistake (that is, upon the supposition that a specific fact is true) which would entitle the other to the money, but which fact is untrue, and the money would not have been paid if it had been known to the payer that the fact was untrue, an action will lie to recover it back, and it is against conscience to retain it.
Page 586 - Provided that no statement made by any person in answer to any question put by or before such election committee or commissioners shall, except in cases of indictments for perjury, be admissible in evidence in any proceeding, civil or criminal.
Page 414 - ... to them and their heirs forever. In the event of the death of said Rhinehart C. Daughetee without issue of his body then surviving, then and in that event I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed, to my brother, Nathaniel P. Daughetee, and his heirs forever.