The Cape Law Journal, Volume 8Eastern District's Law Society, 1891 |
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Page 198 - It shall be lawful for the Legislature of Victoria by any Act or Acts to define the privileges, immunities, and powers to be held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Council and Assembly and by the members thereof respectively. Provided that no such privileges, immunities, or powers shall exceed those now held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Commons, House of Parliament, or the members thereof.
Page 197 - 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.
Page 198 - Act held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and by the Members thereof.
Page 52 - Life's night begins : let him never come back to us ! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part — the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again...
Page 202 - Brunswick respectively, as if the union had not been made ; subject nevertheless (except with respect to such as are enacted by or exist under acts of the parliament of Great Britain or of the parliament of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), to be repealed, abolished, or altered by the parliament of Canada, or by the legislature of the respective province, according to the authority of the parliament or of that legislature under this act.
Page 195 - ... 92, it conferred powers not in any sense to be exercised by delegation from or as agents of. the Imperial Parliament, but authority as plenary and as ample, within the limits prescribed by section 92 as the Imperial Parliament, in the plenitude of its power, possessed and could bestow.
Page 195 - They are in no sense delegates of or acting under any mandate from the Imperial Parliament. When the British North America Act enacted that there should be a legislature for Ontario, and that its legislative assembly should have exclusive authority to make laws for the Province and for provincial purposes in relation to the matters enumerated in sect.
Page 25 - For the decision of the present case, however, it is necessary to consider two other questions, viz. : 1. Whether a withdrawal of an offer has any effect until it is communicated to the person to whom the offer has been sent? 2. Whether posting a letter of withdrawal is a communication to the person to whom the letter is sent?
Page 137 - Let us see what this nonentity can do. He may be vouched in a recovery, although it is for the purpose of making him answer over in value. He may be an executor. He may take under the statute of distributions. He may take by devise. He may be entitled under a charge for raising portions. He may have an injunction; and he may have a guardian;
Page 94 - ... no witness in any proceeding, whether a party to the suit or not, shall be liable to be asked or bound to answer any question tending to show that he or she has been guilty of adultery, unless such witness shall have already given evidence in the same proceeding in disproof of his or her alleged adultery.