Statutes of the Province of British ColumbiaQueen's Printer, 1880 |
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00 VOTE 12 months Act respecting action for partition advice and consent affidavit aforesaid Amendment Act amount Antler Creek apply appointed arbitrators Assessment Act Assessor or Collector bailiwick British Columbia By-law Canadian Pacific Railway Cariboo Cassiar cent certificate CHAP chattels City of Victoria claimant Constable contestation Corporation costs creditors debt debtor directors distribution District enacts as follows ending 30th June entitled Esquimalt Estimated for Service Expenses 12 40 filed Fraser River GAOLS granted Grouse Creek hereinafter Incidental Expenses 12 Judge Legislative Assembly Letters Patent Lieutenant-Governor in Council Lillooet MAJESTY Nanaimo notice oath Official Map person proceedings Province of British purposes Quesnelle River registered repealed Road Tax SALARIES DETAILED Service ending 30th shareholders Sheriff Sheriff's hands Short title Solicitor street sub-section Supreme Court survey Teacher 12 Victoria City Voted per Statement waters Westminster Westminster District wild land writ of execution
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Page 2 - England, or before any notary public, certified under his hand and official seal, 'or before the mayor or chief magistrate of any city, borough or town corporate...
Page 62 - ... any decree shall be made for the conveyance or assignment of any lands, either in cases arising out of the doctrine of election or otherwise...
Page 23 - Province of merchant (or as the case may be) make oath and say: 1. I am the above named claimant (or the duly authorized agent of the claimant in this behalf) and have a personal knowledge of the matter hereinafter deposed to. 2. The above named debtor is justly and truly indebted to me (or to the above named claimant) in the sum of S for (here state shortly the nature and particulars of the claim).
Page 64 - ... on any person or class of persons specified in the order, and, instead thereof, may direct advertisements to be published at such times and in such manner as the Court shall think fit, calling upon all persons claiming to be interested in such property who have not been so served to come in and establish their respective claims in respect thereof before the Judge in Chambers within a time to be thereby limited. After the expiration of the time so limited all persons who shall not have so come...
Page 61 - ... the court to direct a sale of the property and a distribution of the proceeds instead of a division of the property between or among the parties interested, the court may, if it thinks fit, unless the other parties interested in the property, or some of them, undertake to purchase the share of the party requesting a sale, direct a sale of...
Page 2 - ... by this section to administer an oath in testimony of any oath, affidavit, or act being administered, taken, or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or signature of that person, or of the official character of that person.
Page 48 - In case any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the tax imposed on him, the collector shall levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person who ought to pay the same, or of any goods and chattels in his possession...
Page 98 - ... every representative Legislature shall, in respect to the colony under its jurisdiction, have and be deemed at all times to have had full power to make laws respecting the constitution powers and procedure of such Legislature: Provided that such laws shall have been passed in such manner and form as may from time to time be required by any Act of Parliament Letters Patent Order in Council or colonial law for the time being in force in the said colony.
Page 64 - ... or of the absence or disability of some of those parties, or of any other circumstance, a sale of the property and a distribution of the proceeds would be more beneficial for the parties interested than a division of the property between or among them, the...
Page 37 - ... person at a time when he is in insolvent circumstances or is unable to pay his debts in full or knows that he is on the eve of insolvency...