Eastern Law Reporter, Canada, Volume 14Charles Morse, Edward Betley Brown, Walter Edwin Lear Carswell, 1915 Containing judgments of the courts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, together with a selection of cases decided by the Judicial committee of the Privy council, Supreme and Exchequer courts of Canada, in cases arising in such provinces. |
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Eastern Law Reporter, Canada, Volume 13 Charles Morse,Edward Betley Brown,Walter Edwin Lear Affichage du livre entier - 1914 |
Eastern Law Reporter, Canada, Volume 13 Charles Morse,Edward Betley Brown,Walter Edwin Lear Affichage du livre entier - 1914 |
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Page 12 - December, 1833, no action or suit or other proceeding shall be brought, to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, at law or in equity...
Page 315 - Their lordships will, therefore, humbly advise His Majesty that this appeal should be allowed. The orders of the Supreme Court and the Court of King's Bench will accordingly be set aside, and the judgment of Champagne.
Page 542 - ... together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof.
Page 560 - ... in order to take a case out of the operation of the proviso, to prove that self-destruction was the result of insanity.
Page 250 - But the new promise, and not the old debt is the measure of the creditor's right. If a debtor simply acknowledges an old debt the law implies from that simple acknowledgment a promise to pay for it ; for which promise the old debt is a sufficient consideration.
Page 486 - ... a certainty that convinces and directs the understanding, and satisfies the reason and judgment of those who are bound to act conscientiously upon it. This we take to be proof beyond reasonable doubt, because if the law which most depends upon considerations of a moral nature, should go further than this and require absolute certainty it would exclude circumstantial evidence altogether.
Page 48 - Where personal injury is caused to a workman by reason of any defect in the condition or arrangement of the ways, works, machinery, plant, buildings or premises connected with, intended for or used in the business of...
Page 445 - ... the name of a person whom he appoints as arbitrator, the judge shall on the application of the company appoint a competent and disinterested person to be sole arbitrator for determining the compensation to be paid as aforesaid...
Page 200 - ... maxim that the express mention of one thing Implies the exclusion of another.
Page 486 - ... the evidence must establish the truth of the fact to a reasonable and moral certainty ; a certainty that convinces and directs the understanding, and satisfies the reason and judgment, of those who are bound to act conscientiously upon it.