Report, Volume 14

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Page 1 - Champlain in forty-five degrees of north latitude passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea; and also along the north coast of the Bay de Chaleurs and the coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Rosieres...
Page 3 - Britain ; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights resort shall be had to the laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same...
Page 184 - You shall be taken from the place where you are and be carried to the place from whence you came and from thence to the place of execution and there be severally hanged by your necks until you be dead. And may the Lord have mercy on your souls!
Page 22 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 5 - England; for which purpose we have given power under our great seal to the governors of our said colonies respectively, to erect and constitute, with the advice of our said councils respectively, courts of judicature and public justice within our said colonies, for the hearing and determining all causes, as well criminal as civil, according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
Page 6 - Delays and undue Practices in the Administration thereof be effectually prevented; We do particularly require you to take especial Care, that in all Courts, where you are authorized to preside, Justice be impartially administered, and that in all other Courts established within Our said province all Judges and other Persons therein concerned do likewise perform their several duties without any Delay or partiality.
Page 3 - Canada, and every part thereof, as forming a rule of decision in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights...
Page 8 - ... in companies against our peace, in disturbance of our people, with armed force, have gone or rode, or hereafter shall presume to go or ride, and also of all those who have there lain in wait, or hereafter shall presume to lie in wait, to maim, or cut, or kill our people...
Page 72 - Charles Smyth, acting by Procuration for the defendant, filed his Plea, denying the debt as set forth in the plaintiff's Declaration and Walter Roe, attorney for the plaintiff, replied verbally that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of two hundred and thirtynine pounds, eleven shillings currency, in manner and form as set forth in his declaration which he prays may be enquired of by the Court, and the said plaintiff's attorney moved for Trial next Court day being the first of...
Page 2 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all his Majesty's Canadian subjects, within the Province of Quebec, the religious orders and communities only excepted, may also hold and enjoy their property and possessions, together with all customs and usages relative thereto, and all other their civil rights...

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