The Law Quarterly Review, Volumes 26-30Frederick Pollock Stevens and Sons, 1914 - Law |
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... words of exception - and the rule has always been applied with great strictness in the case of carriers - must receive a strict con- struction as regards the person in whose favour they are inserted . " Potts v . Niddrie & Benhar Coal ...
... words of exception - and the rule has always been applied with great strictness in the case of carriers - must receive a strict con- struction as regards the person in whose favour they are inserted . " Potts v . Niddrie & Benhar Coal ...
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... words , and there and then adjudicated upon , would have been settled in the same sense for a fraction of the expense and in a fraction of the time . ' It is known that the late Lord Davey thought that the abolition of demurrers was not ...
... words , and there and then adjudicated upon , would have been settled in the same sense for a fraction of the expense and in a fraction of the time . ' It is known that the late Lord Davey thought that the abolition of demurrers was not ...
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... words in Acts of Parliament , as well as in all other written instruments , must be interpreted according to their primary meaning , unless it appears from the context that another meaning was intended . No doubt the use of the word ...
... words in Acts of Parliament , as well as in all other written instruments , must be interpreted according to their primary meaning , unless it appears from the context that another meaning was intended . No doubt the use of the word ...
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... word ' heir ' as a nomen collectivum : In re Davison's Settlement , Cattermole Davison v . Munby [ 1913 ] 2 Ch . 498 ... words to designate any one capable of taking by purchase ; for the heirs of J. S. are an indefinite succession of ...
... word ' heir ' as a nomen collectivum : In re Davison's Settlement , Cattermole Davison v . Munby [ 1913 ] 2 Ch . 498 ... words to designate any one capable of taking by purchase ; for the heirs of J. S. are an indefinite succession of ...
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... word ' sell ' in a penal statute may be held , in favour of the subject , not to include a delivery by which the property in the goods first ... words are worth quoting : ' That statute was that 26 [ No. CXVII . The Law Quarterly Review .
... word ' sell ' in a penal statute may be held , in favour of the subject , not to include a delivery by which the property in the goods first ... words are worth quoting : ' That statute was that 26 [ No. CXVII . The Law Quarterly Review .
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Page 179 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Page 162 - ... the right of the person entitled subject thereto, or of the person through whom he claims, to make an entry or distress, or to bring an action to recover such land or rent, shall be deemed to have first accrued at the determination of the first of such years or other periods, or at the last time when any rent payable in respect of such tenancy shall have been received (which shall last happen).
Page 185 - To carry on some business or businesses which under existing circumstances may conveniently or advantageously be combined with the business of the company...
Page 393 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 304 - 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 346 - If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the directors to that effect.
Page 29 - I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning, uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably intended to leave it unaltered, to see if the words of the enactment will bear an interpretation in conformity with this view.
Page 431 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign state of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that state in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 10 - It would in my opinion be pessimi exempli if, when an employer had exacted a covenant deliberately framed in unreasonably wide terms, the Courts were to come to his assistance and, by applying their ingenuity and knowledge of the law, carve out of this void covenant the maximum of what he might validly have required.
Page 381 - All acts done by any meeting of the directors or of a committee of directors or by any person acting as a director shall notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such directors or persons acting as aforesaid or that they or any of them were disqualified be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a director.