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Clark v. Clark - (1890) 17 SCR 376 - 1890-06-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Harrison v. Barton[11], Williams v. Hensman[12]. Borden for the respondents cited Cooke v. De Vandes[13], Boughton v. Boughton[14]. [...] effect, and if they had and continued working the farm in partnership together until the death of James in 1848, then would arise a question, which is made and insisted on by the appellants, that a severance had taken place in the lifetime of James upon the authority of Jackson v. Jackson[22] and Williams v. Henseman[23].
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Isen v. Simms - 2006 SCC 41 - [2006] 2 SCR 349 - 2006-10-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Maritime law
William Isen Respondent Coram: McLachlin C.J. and Bastarache, Binnie, LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella, Charron and Rothstein JJ. [...] William Isen Respondent Indexed as: Isen v. Simms Neutral citation: 2006 SCC 41.
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R. v. Chase - [1987] 2 SCR 293 - 1987-10-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William J. Corby, for the appellant. John S. MacPhee, for the respondent. [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William J. Corby, Fredericton. Solicitor for the respondent: John S. MacPhee, Fredericton.
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Co-operative Fire and Casualty Co. v. Twa et al. - [1975] 1 SCR 97 - 1973-10-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
of the late George William Sinclair whose motor bicycle had been insured by the appellant at the time when it was involved in an accident in which Sinclair was killed and the respondent, who was a gratuitous passenger on the motor cycle, received the serious injuries in respect of which the $30,000 judgment was granted. [...] UPON it appearing that if there were no such coverage and if the alleged policy of insurance did not provide indemnity to the said George William Sinclair, that then, the Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Act, pursuant to the provisions of that Act would be liable to indemnify the Plaintiff.
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Deacon v. The King - [1947] SCR 531 - 1947-05-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The decision in John Williams (1913) 8 Cr. A. R. 133 distinguished. There was nothing in the evidence given by the witness Berard at the preliminary inquiry as read into the record of the trial to show that she was a self-confessed perjurer. [...] The decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal in England in John Williams [6], must be read with care.
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American Automobile Ins. Co. v. Dickson - [1943] SCR 143 - 1943-02-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
In May, 1937, the appellant, the American Automobile Insurance Company, had issued in favour of the late William Parker Dickson an insurance policy known as a combination automobile policy, where it undertook to indemnify the latter against loss or damages which the insured might become liable to pay for injury caused to [...] It is submitted on behalf of the appellant that, at the time of the collision, the late William Parker Dickson was driving his car in a state of intoxication and that the risk resulting from such a conduct was not covered by the terms of the policy.
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Busch v. The Eastern Trust Co. et al. - [1928] SCR 479 - 1928-06-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
The following passage from Williams on Executors, 11th ed., p. 981, quoted with approval: “Where there is no gift but by a direction to pay, or divide and pay, at a future time, or on a given event, or to transfer “from and after” a given event, the vesting will be postponed till after that time has arrived, or that event [...] It is said in Williams on Executors, 11th ed., p. 981, Where there is no gift but by a direction to pay, or divide and pay, at a future time, or on a given event, or to transfer “from and after” a given event, the vesting will be postponed till after that time has arrived, or that event has happened, unless, from particular
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The Custodian v. Blucher - [1927] SCR 420 - 1927-04-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
Lothair William Gebhard Blucher (Claimant) Respondent; 1927: February 23; 1927: April 20. [...] of the dividends withheld, and I am aware that a suggestion in support of the propriety of a claim for damages is to be found in the judgment of Vaughan Williams L.J., in Manners v. Pearson[8]; but I think the claim should be considered and effect given to the rights of the parties upon the facts admitted, and that,
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Power v. The King - (1918) 56 SCR 499 - 1918-05-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsExpropriation
William Power and Others (Defendants) Appellants; and His Majesty The King (Plaintiff) Respondent; [...] Dans la présente cause, notre attention a été particulièrement attirée sur la valeur de propriétés situées plus à l'ouest, savoir celles du Séminaire de Québec, de William Power, de A. O. Falardeau, de Frank Ross, de la succession Dobell, de la Marquise de Bassano et de la succession Lampson, qui ont été payées de cinq
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Hosking v. Le Roi No. 2, Ltd. - (1903) 34 SCR 244 - 1903-12-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsMines and minerals
I extract from the evidence of William Thompson, the general superintendent and general manager of the mine : [...] A. Total $5,000, divided as follows : Elizabeth Jane Hosking (widow), $3,000 ; William John Hosking (son), $1,150 ; Stanley Hosking (son), $850.
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Crawford v. Brody - (1896) 26 SCR 345 - 1896-05-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Clark v. Clark[3]; Fisher v. Anderson[4]; Williams on Executors[5]; Jarmyn on Wills[6]; Gordon v. Gordon[7]; Bathurst v. Errington[8]; Rhodes v. Rhodes[9]. [...] To James William the sum of 25 pounds. After the aforesaid claims are paid, lot number five in the third concession falls into the hands of Adam Nixon.
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King v. Evans - (1895) 24 SCR 356 - 1895-05-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
A devise to A. for life and after his decease to the male issue of his body and their heirs and in default of issue to other devisees creates an estate tail in A. Frank v. Stovin[6]; and to the same effect are Denn v. Puckey[7]; Williams v. Williams[8]; Hellem v. Severs[9].
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Fraser v. Fairbanks - (1894) 23 SCR 79 - 1894-02-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
Williams G. Coombs Plaintiff 1893: Nov. 27.28; 1894: Feb. 20. Present:—Fournier, Taschereau, Gwynne, Sedgewick and King JJ. [...] On the 1st December, 1882, the defendant L. P. Fairbanks mortgaged certain property known as the Shubenacadie Canal property to the plaintiff William G. Coombs for the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) and on the 30th March, 1892, the mortgagee commenced an action in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to recover the
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Brady v. Stewart - (1887) 15 SCR 82 - 1887-06-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsThe material facts of the case are as follows Hugh Brady, the appellant, purchased from George Dalrymple, Samuel McFee, Alexander Coultry and William Haddlesley all members of the St. Gabriel Mutual Building Society, their hooks or shares in the latter. [...] As William Haddlesley says:— I am one of the former shareholders of the St. Gabriel Mutual Building Society.
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McLean v. Wilkins - (1887) 14 SCR 22 - 1887-06-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
Moss Q.C. for the respondents referred to Williams on Executors[9]. The judgment of the court was delivered by:— [...] by the conveyance by Mrs. Mackay to Hime of other property valued at that amount, and accordingly on the 6th day of May, 1879, Quinn, by the direction of Hime, conveyed the property to one William Hope, who, it is admitted, was a trustee for the purchaser, Mrs. Mackay; and Hope afterwards, on the 8th of January, 1880,
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O'Sullivan v. Harty - (1885) 11 SCR 322 - 1885-11-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsAgency
William Harty and Charles W. Weldon (Defendants) Respondents; and By order of Revivor. [...] William Harty and Charles W. Weldon (Defendants) Respondents. 1885: May 21; 1885: November 16.
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Gunn v. Cox - (1879) 3 SCR 296 - 1879-04-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
William Cox Respondent 1879: Feb'y 11; 1879: April 16. Present—Ritchie, C. J., and Fournier, Henry, Taschereau and Gywnne, J.J. [...] See Panton v. Williams[1]; Rev. Stat. Nova Scotia, 4th series, c. 91, sec. 266.
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R. v. Hinchey - [1996] 3 SCR 1128 - 1996-12-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part, 2nd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1961. [...] First, as Williams underlines, this inquiry has nothing to do with the accused’s system of values. [...] Glanville Williams in his textbook Criminal Law: The General Part (2nd ed. 1961), at pp. 157-58, explained the wilful blindness approach in these words:
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Peracomo Inc. v. TELUS Communications Co. - 2014 SCC 29 - [2014] 1 SCR 621 - 2014-04-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsMaritime law
Griggs, Patrick, Richard Williams and Jeremy Farr. Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 4th ed. [...] As one leading text puts it, “the use of the words ‘such loss’ in Article 4 seem[s] to underline the fact that the right to limit is barred only if the type of loss intended or envisaged by the ‘person liable’ is the actual loss suffered by the claimant”: Griggs, Williams and Farr, at p. 36 (emphasis in original); see also [...] This view also has the support of leading commentators: see Griggs, Williams and Farr, at p. 36; Damar, at p. 173; S. Hodges and C. Hill, Principles of Maritime Law (2001), at pp. 593-94.
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Geffen v. Goodman Estate - [1991] 2 SCR 353 - 1991-06-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil procedure
Trust
Ted M. Geffen, Sam E. Geffen and William A. Geffen Appellants v. Stacy Randall Goodman, Executor of the Estate [...] The appellants, Sam, William and Ted Geffen are the brothers and nephew of Stacy's mother. [...] For William Geffen, of course, defending the action promoted both his personal interest as well as that of his fellow beneficiaries.
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Monk Corp. v. Island Fertilizers Ltd. - [1991] 1 SCR 779 - 1991-04-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
Maritime law
Payne, William. Payne and Ivamy's Carriage of Goods by Sea, 11th ed. [...] Tetley, William. "Maritime Law Judgments in Canada ‑‑ 1979" (1981), 6 Dalhousie L.J. 676. [...] Tetley, William. "The Buenos Aires Maru ‑‑ Has the Whole Nature of Canadian Maritime Law Been Changed?"
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R. v. Martineau - [1990] 2 SCR 633 - 1990-09-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Williams, Glanville. "Convictions and Fair Labelling," [1983] 42 C.L.J. 85. [...] Williams, Glanville. The Mental Element in Crime. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1965. [...] In this regard, I refer to the following works as support for my position, in addition to those cited in Vaillancourt: Cross, "The Mental Element in Crime" (1967), 83 L.Q.R. 215; Ashworth, "The Elasticity of Mens Rea," in Crime, Proof and Punishment (1981); Williams, The Mental Element in Crime (1965); and Williams,
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R. v. Schwartz - [1988] 2 SCR 443 - 1988-12-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Courts
Criminal law
Williams, Glanville Llewelyn. The Proof of Guilt, 3rd ed. London: Stevens & Sons, 1963. [...] (Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt (3rd ed. 1963), pp. 184‑85). [...] Reference was made to a passage from pp. 184‑85, Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt (3rd ed. 1963), in support of the argument against making exceptions to the principle that the Crown bear the onus of proof.
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R. v. Gardiner - [1982] 2 SCR 368 - 1982-08-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
Criminal law
The decision most frequently quoted is Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241, 93 L ed 1337 (1949) which dealt with the admissibility of hearsay evidence at a sentencing hearing. [...] In addition, the Williams decision has been severely questioned in the United States and there are signs that the due process clause is finding some applicability in the sentencing process (see United States v. Fatico, 458 F. Supp. 388 (1978); Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349, 51 L Ed 2d 393 (1977); Gregg v. Georgia, 428 [...] Secondly, the Williams decision dealt with the admissibility of hearsay evidence at sentencing.
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Kruger v. Booker - [1961] SCR 231 - 1961-01-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
Ernest William Booker (Plaintiff) Respondent. 1960: November 14, 15; 1961: January 24. [...] Booker, born on the 3rd day of November, 1953, subject however to the right of the Plaintiff, Ernest William Booker, to have access to the said infants on Saturday of each week from 9.00 A.M. to 6.00 P.M. and for three days during Easter vacation and for three weeks during summer school-vacation in each and every year. [...] 1953, subject however to the right of the Plaintiff, Ernest William Booker, to have access to the said infants on Saturday of each week from 9.00 A.M. to 6.00 P.M. and for three days during Easter vacation and for three days during Christmas vacation and for three weeks during summer school vacation in each and every year.