Statutes of the Province of British Columbia

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Queen's Printer, 1911 - Law

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Page 526 - ... requisite for its immediate accommodation in relation to the convenient transacting of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales, upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.
Page 316 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or does not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived in the information ; and, if so specified or negatived, no proof in relation to the matters so specified or negatived shall be required on the part of the informant.
Page 104 - And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true, and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath, and by virtue of the Canada Evidence Act.
Page 99 - All investigations held by or under the direction of said State Fire Marshal may in his discretion be private, and persons other than those required to be present by the provisions of this act may be excluded from the place where such investigation is held, and witnesses may be kept separate and apart from each other and not allowed to communicate with each other until they have been examined.
Page 316 - SEC. 10. That any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, or, whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by such corporation...
Page 292 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 141 - ... and, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 167 - ... if at any meeting the chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same the directors present shall choose some one. of their number to be chairman of such meeting.
Page 167 - Every question shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question...
Page 234 - The company shall not be bound to see to the execution of any trust, whether express, implied, or constructive...

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