The Canadian Annual Digest, 1904-1935: With Tables of Cases Digested and Cases Affirmed, Reversed, Or Specially ConsideredCanada Law Book Company, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 491 - ... a man who orders a work to be executed, from which, in the natural course of things, injurious consequences to his neighbor must be expected to arise, unless means are adopted by which such consequences may be prevented...
Page 647 - I am of opinion that the law is that a person possessed of goods as his property has a good title as against every stranger, and that one who takes them from him, having no title in himself, is a wrongdoer, and cannot defend himself by showing that there was title in some third person, for against a wrongdoer possession is title.
Page 139 - ... or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit the company.
Page 367 - The plea of res judicata applies, except in special cases, not only to points upon which the Court was actually required by the parties to form an opinion and pronounce a judgment, but to every point which properly belonged to the subject of litigation, and which the parties exercising reasonable diligence, might have brought forward at the time.
Page 179 - An attempt to commit a crime is an act done with intent to commit that crime, and forming part of a series of acts which would constitute its actual commission if it were not interrupted.
Page 585 - Majesty's subjects to attempt, otherwise than by lawful means, the alteration of any matter in Church or State by law established, or to raise discontent or disaffection amongst Her Majesty's subjects, or to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of such subjects.
Page 261 - ... where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declarations (2).
Page 277 - Obtaining property or credit by use of false statement. Any person 1. Who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly, or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting the financial condition, or means or ability to pay, of himself, or any other person, firm or corporation, in whom...
Page 483 - Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents or servants of the city. Their duties are of a public nature ; their appointment is devolved on cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government ; but this does not render them liable for their unlawful or negligent acts.
Page 387 - MR, during the argument there stated that " a tenant holding under an agreement for a lease of which specific performance would be decreed stands in the same position as to liability as if the lease had been executed.