The Revised Acts and Ordinances of Lower-Canada

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S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, printer to the Queen, 1845 - Law - 716 pages

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Page 666 - August, 1821, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used...
Page 260 - States, shall be reported to the collector, or other chief officer of the customs at the port of...
Page 666 - States to be thereto affixed, and the same shall be good and available to the grantee or grantees by force of this act, to all and every intent and purpose herein contained...
Page 166 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I will faithfully, impartially, and honestly, according to the best of my skill and ability, execute the duty of making the valuation hereby referred to me.
Page 50 - ... to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
Page 478 - ... pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 356 - Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if, upon Demurrer, Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have in any other Cases by Law.
Page 620 - ... shall have the same force and effect to all intents and purposes...
Page 188 - Whenever it appears by the conviction, that the defendant has appeared and pleaded, and the merits have been tried, and that the defendant has not appealed against the conviction, where an appeal is allowed, or if appealed against, the conviction has been affirmed, such conviction shall not afterwards be set aside or vacated in consequence of any defect of form whatever, but the construction shall be such a fair and liberal construction as will be agreeable to the justice of the case.
Page 314 - ... pounds for the forbearance of one hundred pounds for a year, and so after that rate for a greater or lesser sum, or for a longer or shorter time...

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