Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Volume 8Society of Comparative Legislation, 1901 - Comparative law Includes annual "Review of legislation" covering the years 1859-1949. |
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Page 282 - ... where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury, a weekly payment during the incapacity after the second week not exceeding fifty per cent of his average weekly earnings during the previous twelve months, if he has been so long employed, but if not, then for any less period during which he has been in the employment of the same employer, such weekly payment not to exceed one pound.
Page 455 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 374 - Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food...
Page 307 - The owners of any dock or canal, or a harbour authority or a conservancy authority, as defined by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall not, where without their actual fault or privity any loss or damage is caused to any...
Page 306 - That any soldier being in actual military service, or any mariner or seaman being at sea, may dispose of his personal estate as he might have done before the making of this act.
Page 287 - WHEREAS the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established...
Page 305 - Company bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum...
Page 289 - Of any justice or justices exercising the original jurisdiction of the high court. II. Of any other federal court; or court exercising federal jurisdiction, or of the supreme court of any State, or of any other court of any State from which at the establishment of the Commonwealth an appeal lies to the Queen in Council.
Page 294 - Any condition requiring or binding any applicant for shares or debentures to waive compliance with any requirement of this section, or purporting to affect him with notice of any contract, document, or matter not specifically referred to in the -prospectus, shall be void.
Page 288 - Bounties on the production or export of goods, but so that such bounties shall be uniform throughout the Commonwealth...