Eastern Law Reporter, Canada: Containing Judgments of the Courts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, Together with a Selection of Cases Decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, in Cases Arising in Such Provinces, Volume 8

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Carswell Company, limited, 1910 - Law reports, digests, etc
Containing judgments of the courts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, together with a selection of cases decided by the Judicial committee of the Privy council, Supreme and Exchequer courts of Canada, in cases arising in such provinces.
 

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Page 340 - The Administration of Justice in the Province, including the Constitution, Maintenance, and Organization of Provincial Courts, both of Civil and of Criminal Jurisdiction, and including Procedure in Civil Matters in those Courts.
Page 411 - Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 5. Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 275 - ... residue of the estate in the hands of the executor or administrator, if any, among the persons who by law are entitled thereto." " Section 1666. In the order or decree the court must name the persons, and the proportions or parts to which each shall be entitled...
Page 340 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces...
Page 413 - We quite agree, that, where a contract is to do a thing which cannot be performed without a violation of the law it is void, whether the parties knew the law or not. But we think, that in order to avoid a contract which can be legally performed', on the ground that there was an intention to perform it in an illegal manner, it is necessary to show that there was the wicked intention to break the law; and, if this be so, the knowledge of what the law is becomes of great importance.
Page 284 - ... kept in ignorance by the acts of the plaintiff; or where an attorney fraudulently or without authority assumes to represent a party and connives at his defeat; or where the attorney regularly employed corruptly sells out his client's interest to the other side, — these, and similar cases which show that there has never been a real contest in the trial or hearing of the case, are reasons for which a new suit may be sustained to set aside and annul the former judgment or decree, and open the...
Page 280 - If a case of fraud be established, equity will set aside all transactions founded upon it, by whatever machinery they may have been effected, and notwithstanding any contrivances by which it may have been attempted to protect them. It is immaterial...
Page 537 - ... if the relation of buyer and seller is really brought about by the act of the agent, he is entitled to commission although the actual sale has not been effected by him.
Page 255 - And it is further provided in the policy that "if the interest of the assured in the property be any other than the entire, unconditional and sole ownership of the property for the use and benefit of the assured, or if...
Page 276 - When the estate has been fully administered, and it is shown by the executor or administrator, by the production of satisfactory vouchers, that he has paid all sums of money due from him, and delivered up, under the order of the court, all the property of the estate to the parties entitled, and performed all the acts lawfully required of him, the court must make a decree discharging him from all liability to be incurred thereafter.

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