Alberta Law Reports, Volume 6Burroughs, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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A. W. Denman action agreed agreement Alberta alleged Alta amount application autrefois acquit BANC BANK OF NOVA Beck Biggar building Calgary caveat certificate of title charge CITY OF CALGARY claim clause CLOVER BAR COAL contract conviction costs Court of inquiry damages defendant company defendant's directors dismissed disputed ballots dray Edmonton entitled evidence fact favour Frank Ford given ground habeas corpus Harvey judgment jury lease lien magistrate manager MCDOUGALL & SECORD McLaughlin Brothers ment Morden mortgage motorman Mullen negligence notice NOVA SCOTIA opinion owner paid party wall payment person plaintiff possession prize fight provides purchase quashed question railway reason receipt reference respondent returning officer Robertson Rogers rule says Scott shew shewn Simmons solicitors solicitors for defendant solicitors for plaintiff specific performance statement statute Statute of Frauds Stuart tion vendor votes Walsh witness words
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Page 140 - ... the goods are of a description which it is in the course of the seller's business to supply (whether he be the manufacturer or not) there is an implied condition that the goods shall be reasonably fit for such purpose...
Page 153 - ... for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the generality of the foregoing terms of this section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this act) the exclusive legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all matters coming within the classes of subjects next hereinafter enumerated, that is to say: — 1.
Page 153 - 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 153 - The imposition of punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment for enforcing any law of the province made in relation to any matter coming within any of the classes of subjects enumerated in this section: 16.
Page 153 - In each province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to matters coming within the classes of subjects next hereinafter enumerated...
Page 141 - Where a contract of sale is subject to any condition to be fulfilled by the seller the buyer may waive the condition, or may elect to treat the breach of such condition as a breach of warranty, and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated.
Page 440 - ... the purpose of instituting or maintaining a prosecution for an offence in relation to ballot papers, or for the purpose of a petition questioning an election or return...
Page 140 - Where the goods are bought by description from a seller who deals in goods of that description, whether he be the grower or manufacturer or not, there is an implied warranty that the goods shall be of merchantable quality.
Page 463 - All corporations and persons whatever, tenants in tail or for life, guardians, executors, administrators and all other trustees whatsoever, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their heirs and successors, but also for and on behalf of those whom they represent, whether infants, issue unborn, lunatics, idiots...
Page 117 - A confession is an acknowledgment in express words, by the accused in a criminal case, of the truth of the guilty fact charged or of some essential part of it.