Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas of Upper Canada, Volume 8H. Rowsell, 1877 |
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accepted acres action affidavit amount appears applied assignment attorney attorney-general bill by-law certificate chattels claim co-parcener Common Law conveyance costs court covenant creditors Crown curtesy damages dant debt declaration deed defendant defendant's delivered the judgment demurrer discharged Donald Bethune DRAPER Easter Term endorsed entered entitled evidence execution fact fee simple fendant filed Garrett Miller given granted ground Held INCE & Co interest issue jury land learned judge liable ment mortgage nonsuit notice obtained a rule paid parties partner payment Peleg Wood person plaintiff plea pleaded possession promissory note proved purchaser question Railway Company recover referred replevin resignation rule nisi seisin seized sheriff shewed cause shewn sold statute street taxes tenant thereof tiff timber tion township trespass trial trust Upper Canada verdict Western Railway witness words writ
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Page 17 - ... accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession...
Page 316 - Provided always, and be it further enacted, that when any land or rent shall be vested in a trustee upon any express trust, the right of the cestui que trust, or any person claiming through him, to bring a suit against the trustee or any person claiming through him...
Page 316 - Act the right to make an entry or distress or bring an action to recover any land or rent shall be deemed to have first accrued at such time as hereinafter is mentioned ; (that is to say,) when the person claiming such land or rent, or some person through whom he claims...
Page 555 - A promissory note or bill of exchange shall be deemed to have been made, accepted, or indorsed on behalf of any company if made, accepted, or indorsed in the name of the company by any person acting under the express or implied authority of the company...
Page 372 - That every case state whether Judgment on the conviction was passed, or postponed, or the execution of the Judgment respited, and whether the person convicted be in prison, or has been discharged on recognizance of bail to appear and receive Judgment or to render himself in execution.
Page 373 - Majesty, chapter seventy-eight, intituled " An Act for the further amendment of the administration of the Criminal Law," or any Act amending the same, shall and may be exercised...
Page 17 - ... is bona fide and for good consideration as set forth in the said conveyance and not for the purpose of holding or enabling the bargainee to hold the goods mentioned therein against the creditors of the bargainer...
Page 418 - London, and as soon as possible afterwards are to deliver in as particular an account of their loss or damage as the nature of the case will admit of...
Page 319 - ... shall be considered to have been the purchaser unless it shall be proved that he inherited the same ; and in like manner the last person from whom the land shall be proved to have been inherited shall in every case be considered to have been the purchaser, unless it shall be proved that he inherited the same.
Page 279 - Respondent moved for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence, that it was a compromise verdict, and that the damages allowed were inadequate.