The Canada Law Journal, Volume 22W.C. Chewett & Company, 1886 |
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Page 311 - Such Works as, although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.
Page 93 - 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: and for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated, that is to...
Page 311 - In each province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to matters coming within the classes of subjects next hereinafter enumerated...
Page 257 - A mandamus or an injunction may be granted or a receiver appointed by an interlocutory Order of the Court in all cases in which it shall appear to the Court to be just or convenient that such Order should be made...
Page 179 - In determining whether the intention with which any act was done, any words were spoken, or any document was published, was or was not seditious, every person shall be deemed to intend the consequences which would naturally follow from his conduct at the time and under the circumstances in which he so conducted himself.
Page 319 - Courts between 1832 and 1854 established that this was not law, and that a carrier might by a special notice make a contract limiting his responsibility even in the cases here mentioned of gross negligence, misconduct, or fraud on the part of his servants; and, as it seems to me, the reason why the Legislature intervened in The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, was because they thought that the Companies took advantage of those decisions (in Story's language), "to evade altogether the salutary...
Page 192 - a person who hires a public hack, and gives the driver directions as to the place to which he wishes to be conveyed, but exercises no other control over the conduct of the driver, is not responsible for his acts or negligence...
Page 202 - The ballot of each voter shall consist of a paper (in this act called a ballot paper) showing the names and description of the candidates. Each ballot paper shall have a number printed on the back, and shall have attached a counterfoil with the same number printed on the face.
Page 94 - The imposition of punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment for enforcing any law of the province made in relation to any matter coming within any of the classes of subjects enumerated in this section: 16.
Page 300 - If this action had been brought twenty years ago, the defendant would have been liable, since, by the common law a carrier is liable in all cases except two ; where the loss is occasioned by the act of God, or of the king's enemies using an overwhelming force, which persons with ordinary means of resistance cannot guard against.