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Page 44 - Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject ; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject...
Page 249 - An Act to afford Facilities for the more certain Ascertainment of the Law administered in one Part of Her Majesty's Dominions, when pleaded in the Courts of another Part thereof.
Page 251 - ... order, for the purpose of being examined, or the production of any writings or other documents to be mentioned in such rule or order...
Page 251 - ... court, or of the court to which such judge belongs, or of such judge, it shall be lawful for such court or judge to order the examination...
Page 177 - The validity of a bill as regards requisites in form is determined by the law of the place of issue, and the validity as regards requisites in form of the supervening contracts, such as acceptance, or indorsement, or acceptance supra protest, is determined by the law of the place where such contract was made.
Page 42 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign State of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalisation, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that State in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 178 - The duties of the holder with respect to presentment for acceptance or payment and the necessity for or sufficiency of a protest or notice of dishonour, or otherwise, are determined by the law of the place where the act Is done or the bill is dishonoured.
Page 178 - Kingdom. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Interpretation of the drawing, indorsement, acceptance, or acceptance supra protest of a bill, is determined by the law of the place where such contract is made. Provided that where an inland bill Is indorsed in a foreign country the Indorsement shall as regards the payer be Interpreted according to the law of the United Kingdom.
Page 13 - The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all Powers necessary or proper for performing the Obligations of Canada or of any Province thereof, as Part of the British Empire, towards Foreign Countries, arising under Treaties between the Empire and such Foreign Countries.
Page 252 - Act shall have the like right to refuse to answer questions tending to criminate himself, and other questions, which a witness in any cause pending in the court by which or by a Judge whereof or before the Judge by whom the order for examination was made would be entitled to ; and that no person shall be compelled to produce under any such order as aforesaid any writing or other document that he would not be compeLkble to produce at a trial of such a cause.