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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... rule resent hotly any suggestion that the Judge should be given more power over the conduct of trials , and the Legislatures of many states , made up mostly of law- yers , have so restricted the power of the Judge that he is only a sort ...
... rule resent hotly any suggestion that the Judge should be given more power over the conduct of trials , and the Legislatures of many states , made up mostly of law- yers , have so restricted the power of the Judge that he is only a sort ...
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... rule above the law , calling on the Lord . Strangers of his Council , hirelings of his pay , These shall deal our justice : sell - deny - delay . From the time of granting the Petition of Right we pass over a period of two generations ...
... rule above the law , calling on the Lord . Strangers of his Council , hirelings of his pay , These shall deal our justice : sell - deny - delay . From the time of granting the Petition of Right we pass over a period of two generations ...
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... rule of equality of opportunity in the use of the Panama Canal , and is seeking a special advantage for itself in what is believed to be a violation of the obligations of a treaty . Mr. President , that opinion of the civilized world is ...
... rule of equality of opportunity in the use of the Panama Canal , and is seeking a special advantage for itself in what is believed to be a violation of the obligations of a treaty . Mr. President , that opinion of the civilized world is ...
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... rules , substantially as embodied in the convention " of Constantinople , signed the 29th of October , 1888 , " for the free navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal ; that is to say : • to First . The canal shall be free and open the ...
... rules , substantially as embodied in the convention " of Constantinople , signed the 29th of October , 1888 , " for the free navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal ; that is to say : • to First . The canal shall be free and open the ...
Page 222
Then follow rules relating to blockade and vessels of war , the embarkation and disembarkation of troops , and the extension of the provisions to the waters adjacent to the canal . Now , Mr. President , that rule must , of course , be ...
Then follow rules relating to blockade and vessels of war , the embarkation and disembarkation of troops , and the extension of the provisions to the waters adjacent to the canal . Now , Mr. President , that rule must , of course , be ...
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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.