The Constitution of Canada in Its History and Practical WorkingYale University Press, 1917 - 170 pages |
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Page 87 - The establishment, maintenance and management of public and reformatory prisons in and for the province; 7. The establishment, maintenance and management of hospitals, asylums, charities and eleemosynary institutions in and for the province other than marine hospitals; 8.
Page 86 - Legal tender. 21) Bankruptcy and insolvency. 22) Patents of invention and discovery. 23) Copyrights. 24) Indians, and lands reserved for the Indians. 25) Naturalization and aliens. 26) Marriage and divorce. 27) The criminal law, except the constitution of courts of criminal jurisdiction, but including the procedure in criminal matters.
Page 86 - In each Province the Legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to matters coming within the classes of subjects next hereinafter enumerated ; that is to say: ... 10.
Page 83 - He shall be legally or equitably seised as of Freehold for his own Use and Benefit of Lands or Tenements held in free and common Socage, or seised or possessed for his own Use and Benefit of Lands or Tenements held in Franc-alleu or in Roture...
Page 146 - To this perhaps it will be said that, the people being ignorant and always discontented, to lay the foundation of government in the unsteady opinion and uncertain humour of the people is to expose it to certain ruin; and no government will be able long to subsist if the people may set up a new legislative whenever they take offence at the old one. To this I answer, Quite the contrary. People are not so easily got out of their old forms as some are apt to suggest.
Page 72 - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page 144 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 87 - Local Works and Undertakings other than such as are of the following Classes: — a) Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the Limits of the Province...
Page 124 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Page 40 - The Government of Quebec bounded on the Labrador Coast by the River St. John, and from thence by a Line drawn from the Head of that River through the Lake St.