The Canadian Law Times, Volume 28Carswell, 1908 - Law From 1900 to 1908 includes the "Annual digest of Canadian cases ... decided in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and in the courts of the provinces ... Edited by Edward B. Brown." |
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... matter . The main thing is for our Courts to earn and to deserve to earn the confidence of the people ; thus only can they stand . And out of Court the duties of members of the Bar are not less but more onerous as time goes by and life ...
... matter . The main thing is for our Courts to earn and to deserve to earn the confidence of the people ; thus only can they stand . And out of Court the duties of members of the Bar are not less but more onerous as time goes by and life ...
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... matters which are more or less of local concern ; or the alternative , which finds favour , that groups of counties ... matter is a delicate one to tread upon , I mean the appointment of Crown counsel for the assizes . The usage of this ...
... matters which are more or less of local concern ; or the alternative , which finds favour , that groups of counties ... matter is a delicate one to tread upon , I mean the appointment of Crown counsel for the assizes . The usage of this ...
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... matter when the country has a public tribunal created and paid for that purpose . I would believe , of course , in connection with these Local Courts , in making the practice as simple as it can be , with due regard , of course , to ...
... matter when the country has a public tribunal created and paid for that purpose . I would believe , of course , in connection with these Local Courts , in making the practice as simple as it can be , with due regard , of course , to ...
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... matter which I want to bring before the meeting , in regard to some amendments that might be made . I will put it in this form : That the Chattel Mortgages and Bills of Sale Act be amended so that chattel mortgages and bills of sale ...
... matter which I want to bring before the meeting , in regard to some amendments that might be made . I will put it in this form : That the Chattel Mortgages and Bills of Sale Act be amended so that chattel mortgages and bills of sale ...
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... matter of assessment I think we should have a change . It has been decided that the Court of Revision and the County Court Judge have no jurisdiction except on the question of value . Now I certainly think that is a matter that requires ...
... matter of assessment I think we should have a change . It has been decided that the Court of Revision and the County Court Judge have no jurisdiction except on the question of value . Now I certainly think that is a matter that requires ...
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Page 185 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 552 - The Administration of Justice in the Province, including the Constitution, Maintenance, and Organization of Provincial Courts, both of Civil and of Criminal Jurisdiction, and including Procedure in Civil Matters in those Courts.
Page 126 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 379 - Newspaper publications by a lawyer as to pending or anticipated litigation may interfere with a fair trial in the courts and otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice. Generally they are to be condemned.
Page 377 - The lawyer owes entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability, to the end that nothing be taken or be withheld from him.
Page 987 - ... law, so as to enable the assignee to sue in his own name for a breach thereof, was attributed by Coke to the "wisdom and policy of the founders of our law" in discouraging maintenance and litigation.
Page 690 - This England never did (nor never shall) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true.
Page 972 - The Judicial Department comes home in its effects to every man's fireside : it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not, to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience?
Page 872 - The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved.
Page 898 - ... may cause the child to be placed in a suitable family home, subject to the friendly supervision of a probation officer and the further order of the court; or it may authorize the child to be boarded out in some suitable...