Lower Canada Reports: Décisions Des Tribunaux Du Bas-Canada, Volume 5

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E. R. Fréchette, 1855
 

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Page 337 - ... the defendant or defendants in such issue"1 action or suit, shall and may plead the general issue, and give this act, and the special matter, in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this act...
Page 202 - The law charges this person, thus intrusted to carry goods, against all events but acts of God, and of the enemies of the king. For though the force be never so great, as if an irresistible multitude of people should rob him, nevertheless he is chargeable. And this is a politic establishment, contrived by the policy of the law for the safety of all persons, the necessity of whose affairs oblige them to trust these sorts of persons, that they may be safe in their ways of dealing...
Page 109 - Representatives of the people so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, 'and ordain laws, statutes, and ordinances for the public peace, welfare, and good government of our said colonies, and of the people and inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the laws of England...
Page 337 - ... and in any such action the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 11 - Les conventions légalement formées tiennent lieu de loi à ceux qui les ont faites.
Page 311 - No seaman who is engaged for a voyage or engagement which is to terminate in the United Kingdom shall be entitled to sue in any court abroad for wages...
Page 107 - ... same powers of government that it does over its other subjects; nor has it been disputed in the argument before us, and therefore we consider it as conceded that the Sovereign had not merely the right of appointing such magistrates and establishing such corporations and courts of justice as he might do by the common law at home, but also that of creating a local Legislative Assembly, with authority, subordinate indeed to that of Parliament, but supreme within, the limits of the colony for the...
Page 354 - Infirme le susdit jugement ; et cette Cour, procédant à rendre le jugement que la dite Cour Supérieure aurait dû rendre...
Page 122 - ... the glory of the English law consists in clearly defining the times, the causes, and the extent, when, wherefore, and to what degree, the imprisonment of the subject may be lawful. This it is, which induces the absolute necessity of expressing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made : that the court upon a habeas corpus may examine into its validity ; and according to the circumstances of the case may discharge, admit to bail, or remand the prisoner.
Page 459 - Ce temps ne court , dans le cas de violence , que du jour où elle a cessé; dans le cas d'erreur ou de dol, du jour où ils ont été découverts; et pour les actes passés par les femmes mariées non autorisées , du jour de la dissolution du mariage.

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