Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest, Volume 6Carswell Company, 1906 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action affidavit agreement alleged allowed amount ANGLIN Appeal by defendants Appeal by plaintiff application arbitrators award Bank BRITTON by-law Canada cause CHAMBERS charge city of Toronto contract contributory negligence conveyance council creditors damages deceased defendant's defendants dismissed with costs Divisional Court duty entitled evidence executors fact FALCONBRIDGE favour fendants GARROW given Grand Trunk R. W. Grand Trunk Railway Hamilton injury interest Jane Reece JJ.A John Aird judgment jurisdiction jury land liability lumber MACLAREN Master ment MEREDITH Molsons Bank mortgage Moss motion Municipal Corporations negligence notice November October Ontario opinion OSLER Ottawa owner paid parties payment person plain plaintiff proceedings promissory notes provisions purchase question railway company reason referred road Rule share shew shewn solicitor statement of claim statute street TEETZEL tiff tion township trustees writ writ of summons Yonge street
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Page 120 - Every steamship, when approaching another ship so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or if necessary stop and reverse ; and every steamship shall, when in a fog, go at a moderate speed.
Page 999 - Hall, that in construing wills, and indeed statutes, and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that absurdity and inconsistency, but no further.
Page 959 - Release of the same, unless in the meantime some Part of the Principal Money, or some Interest thereon, shall have been paid, or some Acknowledgment of the Right thereto shall have been given in Writing signed by the Person by whom the same shall be payable, or his Agent, to the Person entitled thereto, or his Agent...
Page 258 - ... 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 196 - ... a certificate containing the substance and effect only (omitting the formal part) of the indictment and conviction for such offence, purporting to be signed by the clerk of the court, or other officer having the custody of the records of the court where the offender was convicted, or by the deputy of such clerk or officer...
Page 667 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 118 - Where by the above rules one of two ships is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course, subject to the qualifications contained in the following article.
Page 376 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, points, locomotive engine, or train upon a railway...
Page 366 - Notwithstanding any stipulation or agreement to the contrary, any action or proceeding against the insurer for the recovery of any claim under or by virtue of a contract of insurance of the person may be commenced at any time within the term of one year...
Page 263 - It was there laid down that the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely.