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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... creditors to be deemed creditors was held . A majority in number and value after lodging proof of claims could , by resolution , agree to liquidation by arrangement , and to the acceptance of the composition . That resolution then ...
... creditors to be deemed creditors was held . A majority in number and value after lodging proof of claims could , by resolution , agree to liquidation by arrangement , and to the acceptance of the composition . That resolution then ...
Page 43
... creditors , not for the debtor or for the trustee . The other underlying principle is - commercial morality . The dealings of an insolvent debtor with his estate are not matters which concern only him and his creditors ; the community ...
... creditors , not for the debtor or for the trustee . The other underlying principle is - commercial morality . The dealings of an insolvent debtor with his estate are not matters which concern only him and his creditors ; the community ...
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... creditors . 3. They could form limited liability companies . 4. They could obtain precarious credit . 5. They could await the Statute of Limitations . 6. They could obtain a discharge from such of their creditors as were willing to ...
... creditors . 3. They could form limited liability companies . 4. They could obtain precarious credit . 5. They could await the Statute of Limitations . 6. They could obtain a discharge from such of their creditors as were willing to ...
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... creditors are pleased to enter into deeds of composi- tion in order to get anything at all . 7. The assignees and ... creditors together and could get relief from his creditors , but the non - trader who had endorsed his paper must pay ...
... creditors are pleased to enter into deeds of composi- tion in order to get anything at all . 7. The assignees and ... creditors together and could get relief from his creditors , but the non - trader who had endorsed his paper must pay ...
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... creditor to hold an insolvent's property for the benefit of all creditors . It was pointed out that clause 766 of the Code of Civil Procedure provided a much more simple , much more expeditious , and much less unjust remedy , and that ...
... creditor to hold an insolvent's property for the benefit of all creditors . It was pointed out that clause 766 of the Code of Civil Procedure provided a much more simple , much more expeditious , and much less unjust remedy , and that ...
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Page 229 - 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 70 - 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 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 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 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 226 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 363 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 145 - 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 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 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.