The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court of Justice for Ontario, Volume 22Rowsell & Hutchison, 1893 Reports of cases decided in the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court of Justice. |
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action agreement alleged amount appears application Argument assignment BOYD by-law cause CHANCERY DIVISION city of Toronto claim contract conveyance corporation costs covenant Credit Valley Railway creditors damages debtor defendants devise Division Court Divisional Court dower entitled evidence executors FALCONBRIDGE fee simple Ferguson forfeiture given granted held insolvent insured intention interest Judgment jurisdiction jury land learned Judge lease lessors liable license lien Liquor MacMahon matter ment mortgage motion Municipal Act negligence notice Ontario owner paid Parliament of Canada parties payment person plaintiff premises provisions purchaser QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION question R. S. O. ch Railway Company referred Regina rent respect river Robertson Sarah Green sell shew Statement statute street railway sub-sec tenant testator thereof tion Toronto Street Railway township township of Mariposa trial trust ultra vires Western R. W. widow words XXII
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Page 507 - 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 501 - Act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 359 - The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred.
Page 639 - Notwithstanding the severance by conveyance, surrender, or otherwise, of the reversionary estate in any land comprised in a lease, and notwithstanding the avoidance or cesser in any other manner of the term granted by a lease as to part only of the land comprised therein, every condition or right of re-entry, and every other condition, contained in the lease, shall be apportioned...
Page 706 - ... then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 706 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 502 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 632 - ... into and upon the said demised premises, or any part thereof in the name of the whole, to re-enter, and the same to have again, re-possess, and enjoy as of his or their former estate, anything hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 32 - No doubt all penal Statutes are to be construed strictly, that is to say, the Court must see that the thing charged as an offence is within the plain meaning of the words used, and must not strain the words on any notion that there has been a slip, that there has been a casu-s omissu-s, that the thing is so clearly within the mischief that it must have been intended to be included and would have been included if thought of.
Page 512 - Procedure must necessarily form an essential part of any law dealing with insolvency. It is therefore to be presumed, indeed it is a necessary implication, that the Imperial Statute in assigning to the Dominion Parliament the subjects of bankruptcy and insolvency intended to confer on it legislative power to interfere with property, civil rights and procedure within the provinces so far as a general law relating to these subjects might affect them.