Upper Canada Law Journal, Volume 3

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W.C. Chewett, 1867 - Law

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Page 195 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces...
Page 170 - The Governor General shall appoint the Judges of the Superior, District, and County Courts in each Province, except those of the Courts of Probate in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Page 282 - Realm; and that the Clergy of the said Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion.
Page 282 - AND for the more perfect security and ease of the minds of the inhabitants of the said province, it is hereby declared that his Majesty's subjects professing the religion of the Church of Rome of and in the said province of Quebec may have, hold and enjoy the free exercise of the religion of the Church of Rome, subject to the King's supremacy...
Page 44 - By the 14th section of that act it is enacted, " that if any person against whom any judgment shall have been entered up in any of Her Majesty's superior courts at Westminster shall have any Government stock, funds, or annuities, or any stock or shares of or in any public company in England (whether incorporated or not), standing in his name in his own right, or in the name of any person in trust for him...
Page 187 - In every contract for the carriage of goods between a person holding himself forth as the owner of a lighter or vessel ready to carry goods for hire, and the person putting goods on board or employing his vessel or lighter for that purpose, it is a term of the contract on the part of the carrier or lighterman implied by law, that hia vessel is tight, and fit for the purpose or employment for which he offers and holds it forth to the public.
Page 58 - ... such person to belong to any club or association, or to contribute to any common fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not belonging to any particular club or association, or not having contributed, or having refused to contribute to any common fund...
Page 17 - ... to make the same absolute in the whole or in part and to order such tenant or person within a time to be fixed upon a consideration of all the circumstances to...
Page 118 - a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider, Sir, what is the purpose of courts of justice ? It is, that every man may have his cause fairly tried, by men appointed to try causes. A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie...
Page 185 - The law charges this person, thus intrusted to carry goods, against all events but acts of God, and of the enemies of the king. For though the force be never so great, as if an irresistible multitude of people should rob him, nevertheless he is chargeable. And this is a politic establishment, contrived by the policy of the law for the safety of all persons, the necessity of whose affairs oblige them to trust these sorts of persons, that they may be safe in their ways of dealing...

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