The Civil Code of Lower Canada: Together with a Synopsis of Changes in the Law, References to the Reports of the Commissioners, the Authorities as Reported by the Commissioners, a Condordance with the Code Napoleon and the Code de Commerce, Special References for Notaries, Clergymen, Physicians, Merchants, Real Estate Owners, and Persons Out of Lower Canada,--and a Complete Index

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Dawson Brothers, 1867 - Civil law - 475 pages
 

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Page 277 - Suits in relation to the business of the partnership may be brought and conducted by and against the general partners in the same manner as if there were no special partners.
Page 149 - A party in like manner may stipulate for the benefit of a third person, when such is the condition of a contract which he makes for himself, or of a gift which he makes to another ; and he who makes the stipulation cannot revoke it, if the third person have signified his assent to it.
Page 387 - ... 1. Of himself; 2. Of any person on whom he depends wholly or in part for education or support; 3. Of any person under a legal obligation to him for the payment of money, or respecting property or services, of which death or illness might delay or prevent the performance; and, 4.
Page 89 - CCP 1410. 672. The beneficiary heir is charged to administer the property of the succession and must render an account of his administration to the creditors and legatees. He cannot be compelled to pay out of his private property unless he has been put in default to produce his account and has failed to fulfil this obligation. After the verification of the account he cannot be compelled to pay out of his private property except to the extent of the sums remiuning in his hands.— CN 803.
Page 285 - There is no right of action for the recovery of money, or any other thing claimed under a gaming contract or a bet.
Page 178 - ... 5. Notarial copies of any power of attorney executed out of Lower Canada, in the presence of one or more witnesses and authenticated before the mayor of the place or other public officer of the country where it bears date, the original whereof is deposited with the notary public in Lower Canada granting the copy ; 6. The copy taken by a prothonotary or a clerk of a circuit court in Lower Canada of any power of attorney executed out of...
Page xxxv - V. ch. 43, s. 7. 8. The Commissioners shall, from time to time, report to the Governor their proceedings and the progress of the work entrusted to them, and shall, in all matters not expressly provided for by this Act, be guided by the instructions they receive from the Governor ; and whenever they think any section or division of the work sufficiently advanced for the purpose, they shall cause the same to be printed, and transmit a sufficient number of printed copies thereof with their Report to...
Page 81 - Representation takes place without limit in the direct line descending; it is allowed whether the children of the deceased compete with the descendants of a predeceased child, or whether all the children of the deceased having died before him, the descendants of these children happen to be in equal or unequal degrees amongst themselves.
Page xxxix - ... substantive amendments and additions made in or to the original Roll, and shall submit the same to the Governor, who may cause a correct printed Roll thereof, attested under his signature and countersigned by the Provincial Secretary, to be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Legislative Council, which Roll shall be held to be the original thereof; any such marginal notes or references thereon as are mentioned in Section one, being held to form no part thereof, but to be inserted for...
Page xxxiii - Canada are no longer re-printed or commented upon in France, and it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain copies of them, or of the commentaries upon them; And whereas the reasons aforesaid, and the great advantages which have resulted from Codification, as well in France as in the State of Louisiana, and other places, render it manifestly expedient to provide for the Codification of the Civil Laws of Lower Canada...

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