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Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. v. Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board - [1994] 1 SCR 202 - 1994-02-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsAdministrative law
Mines and minerals
Translated by Katherine Lippel, John Philpot and William Schabas. Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 1991. [...] Wade, William, Sir. Administrative Law, 6th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
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R. v. Salituro - [1991] 3 SCR 654 - 1991-11-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4th ed., Book One. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1770. [...] In Book One of his Commentaries on the Laws of England (4th ed. 1770), Sir William Blackstone propounded a view of the common law as fixed and unchanging, at p. 69:
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Vetrovec v. The Queen - [1982] 1 SCR 811 - 1982-05-31
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
(1981), 56 C.C.C. (2d) 193; Director of Public Prosecutions v. Kilbourne, [1973] 1 All E.R. 440; Davies v. Director of Public Prosecutions, [1954] I All E.R. 507; R. v. Farler (1837), 8 Car. & P. 106; R. v. Mullins (1848), 3 Cox C.C. 526; Trial of William Davidson and Richard Tidd for High Treason (1820), 33 How. St. [...] In Trial of William Davidson and Richard Tidd for High Treason (1820), 33 How. St. Tr. 1338 Baron Garrow instructed the jury as follows, at p. 1483:
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2,154.
Minister of Justice (Can.) v. Borowski - [1981] 2 SCR 575 - 1981-12-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
William Henkel, Q.C., for the intervener the Attorney General for Alberta. [...] Solicitor for the intervener the Attorney General for Alberta: William Henkel, Edmonton.
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Public Trustee v. Guaranty Trust - [1980] 2 SCR 931 - 1980-10-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
In this regard the following paragraph from Williams and Mortimer on Executors, Administrators and Probate, at p. 703 is self-explanatory: [...] The extent to which the doctrine that his debt was extinguished was carried is further illustrated by the cases collected in Williams on Executors, vol. ii, p. 1180, which shew that an executor, having assets sufficient and properly applicable to pay a debt due to him from his testator, could not sue the testator’s heir nor
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2,156.
Re: Authority of Parliament in relation to the Upper House - [1980] 1 SCR 54 - 1979-12-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Alberta. James A. Nesbitt, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Newfoundland. [...] Solicitors for the Attorney General of Alberta: Ross Paisley and William Henkel, Edmonton.
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2,157.
Herman et al. v. Deputy Attorney General (Canada) - [1979] 1 SCR 729 - 1978-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Bernard Herman, City Parking Canada Limited, The William Bernard Herman Trust, Musketeers Investments Limited, S.A., Columbus Holdings Limited, Columbus Development Corporation Limited, Dumas Investments Limited, S.A., and City Parking Holding Limited Appellants;
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2,158.
Attorney General (Que.) et al. v. Farrah - [1978] 2 SCR 638 - 1978-05-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the interverior. The judgment of Laskin C.J. and Spence, Dickson and Estey JJ. was delivered by [...] Solicitor for the intervenor: William Henkel, Edmonton. [1] [1976] C.A. 467.
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Beatty and Mackie v. Kozak - [1958] SCR 177 - 1958-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil law
Criminal law
But as Williams J. in Cann v. Clipperton11 said: It would be wild work if a party might give himself protection by merely saying that he believed himself acting in pursuance of a statute. ... [...] In Norris v. Smith18, Williams J, says : The question is, not whether the defendant and the trustees were strictly justified by the provisions of the statute, but whether there was a semblance of acting under it.
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Orchard v. Tunney - [1957] SCR 436 - 1957-05-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
APPEAL from the judgment of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba 1 affirming the judgment of Williams C.J.Q.B. 2. [...] To the same effect was Marzetti v. Williams et al. 11. The steps so taken by the board and the subsequent action were found by the Courts below to have been wilful and without justification or excuse.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company v. The Town of Estevan - [1957] SCR 365 - 1957-04-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
Transportation
The coal has since been used in stationary boiler-plants in roundhouses on the main line from Fort William to Swift Current to produce steam power for its shops and heat for its railway cars and station buildings. [...] This coal is hauled over the Portal and Estevan subdivisions for use in stationary boiler-plants in roundhouses at Fort William, Ignace, Kenora, Winnipeg, Brandon, Broadview, Regina, Moose Jaw and Swift Current, all situate on the main line of the Company.
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The Queen v. Carey - [1957] SCR 266 - 1957-02-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William A. Schultz, Q.C., for the appellant. Norman D. Mullins, for the respondent. [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William A. Schultz, Vancouver. Solicitor for the respondent: Norman D. Mullins, Vancouver.
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Grandel v. Mason - [1953] 1 SCR 459 - 1953-04-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
in Williams—Joint Tortfeasors and Contributory Negligence, p. 5 et seq. [...] In Kine v. Jolly 24, Vaughan Williams L.J. said in part (p. 489) :— I think we must bear in mind that in these cases, which are conveniently grouped together as cases in which the proper form of action is an action of nuisance, citizens are not to be allowed to enforce rights which limit the user by others of property,
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Miller v. The King - [1950] SCR 168 - 1949-12-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsState
The identity of the trustees, named, two of whom were the Honourable David William Smith, His Majesty's Acting Surveyor General, and Captain William Claus, His Majesty's Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and the fact that by c. 74 of the Statutes of the First Parliament of the Province of Canada (4 & 5 Vict.) it
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Municipality of Queen's County v. Cooper - [1946] SCR 584 - 1946-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsMaritime law
grant to William Spry and others, the said grant being number 105 and being dated the 30th day of January, 1787, the said lots having been conveyed to the said defendant by one William S. Cooper by deed bearing date the 17th day of April, 1916, registered in Queen's County records in book P-4 at pages 312-3 as no. 31583.
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Kinkel et al. v. Hyman - [1939] SCR 364 - 1939-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
Torts
As Vaughan Williams, L.J., points out, the average chance of each competitor was one in four. [...] Vaughan Williams, L.J., in the course of his reported reasons, said:
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2,167.
Snyder v. Minister of National Revenue - [1939] SCR 384 - 1939-06-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Anderson ............. Calgary Power Co., Calgary .... 1⁄2 Unit [...] William S. Applegate ..................................................... 800 shares
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2,168.
In re Bankruptcy of Stobie, Forlong & Company - [1938] SCR 193 - 1938-03-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsBankruptcy and insolvency
Vaughan Williams, L.J., was of opinion that the onus of showing that the proof was sworn by inadvertence had not been satisfied. [...] As has already been mentioned, the title-deeds were in the hands of a third party and it is quite evident, as Vaughan Williams, L.J., points out in supplemental reasons, at page 238, “that an order giving leave to amend or withdraw the proof would under the circumstances be illusory.”
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Harris v. Lindeborg - [1931] SCR 235 - 1930-12-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsMines and minerals
William F. Harris (Plaintiff) Appellant; and Daniel Lindeborg And Another (Defendants) Respondents. [...] Mr. William Harris Dear frend I got a letter from you about a month ago I rote you in September from hear and I gess it must have gon a strae you no the claim you had on Salmon river me and Dan Lenderborg staked it and we Bonded all of ower Claims on Salmon River as near as I can figer it out you will get about five
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Gordon v. Hebblewhite - [1927] SCR 29 - 1927-01-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
William Arthur Hebblewhite, carrying on business under the firm name of “Winnipeg Financial Corporation” (Plaintiff) Respondent; [...] While some of the testimony of the defence witnesses, Lount, Lyon, Williams and Gordon, detailing conversations between themselves in the absence of the plaintiff, may have been improperly received, there is enough admissible evidence to establish that the appellant Gordon endorsed the $10,000 note sued on upon the distinct
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The Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York v. Mowat - (1902) 32 SCR 147 - 1902-05-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
William Mowat and Another (Plaintiffs) Respondents. 1902: March 11, 12, 13; 1902: May 6. [...] MILLS J.—In this case, William Mowat, the plaintiff, was a banker, residing in the city of Stratford, in the province of Ontario, and the company are a corporation under the laws of the state of New York, that carried on the business of life insurance in the province of Ontario.
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Baker v. La Société de Construction Métropolitaine - (1893) 22 SCR 364 - 1893-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
The action was brought by the appellants on the 26th January, 1887, as representatives of the estates of William Workman and Alexander Maurice Delisle, alleging that on the 2nd December, 1874, they sold the property to Leon Poiriaux and Pierre Demeule for $2,235, the purchasers agreeing to pay 22 235 in seven annual [...] ' Les appelants, comme représentants de feu William Workman ét Alexandre Maurice Delisle, allèguent que ces derniers ont vendu à Léon Poiriaux et Pierre Demeule l'immeuble décrit en leur déclaration, pour la somme de $2,235, payable en sept versements annuels consécutifs, le premier devant être de la somme de $320, et le
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McAllister v. Forsyth - (1885) 12 SCR 1 - 1885-05-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
Eliza McAllister, Charles Grant Barnstead and William Ackhurst (Plaintiffs) [...] the county of Halifax, merchant, of the first part; and Eliza McAllister of the same place, widow, Charles Grant Barnstead, of the same place, gentleman, and William Ackhurst, of the same place, merchant, of the second part, after reciting indebtedness of first party to the second party, the party of the first part agreed
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The Queen v. Laliberté - (1877) 1 SCR 117 - 1877-02-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The case of Rex v. Martin, ([24]); was tried before Mr. Justice Williams in 1834. [...] Williams J., said he was one of the counsel in R. v. Hodgson. The question in the present case was as to previous intercourse with the prisoner, and the question there was as to intercourse with other men.
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Part 1, 2020 Vol. 1 ([2020] 1 SCR 3-31) - 2020-02-28
Canada Supreme Court ReportsBlackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of Eng- land: Book the Fourth. [...] Glanville Williams suggested a compromise between the two viewpoints. [...] Justice Wilson agreed with, and adopted, Glanville Williams’s pragmatic approach (p. 120, citing G. L. Williams, “The Foundation of Tortious Liability” (1939), 7 Cambridge L.J. 111).