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United States of America v. Dynar - [1997] 2 SCR 462 - 1997-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Williams, Glanville. “Attempting the Impossible ‑‑ A Reply” (1979‑80), 22 Crim. [...] In this, we again agree completely with Glanville Williams, who said: [...] See Glanville Williams, Criminal Law -- The General Part (2nd ed. 1961), at p. 710.
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Newfoundland (Attorney General) v. N.A.P.E. - [1988] 2 SCR 204 - 1988-10-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
Her Majesty's Attorney General of Newfoundland and William Chafe Respondents [...] William H. Goodridge, for the respondent William Chafe. The judgment of the Court was delivered by [...] 3. William Chafe, a member of the Association and a bailiff employed at the court, crossed the picket line on the day it was set up, in order to perform his employment duties within the court.
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O'Connor v. Nova Scotia Telephone Co. - (1893) 22 SCR 276 - 1893-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
We have also the description contained in a deed dated in April 1812 from one William Lawson who conveyed the land therein mentioned to one Brenton Haliburton who by a deed dated in April 1847 conveyed the same land presumably by the same description to the said William G. Anderson. [...] We have also the description contained in a deed executed in 1809 of land conveyed by John Woodin to William Lawson and one Grassie and of the piece thereof allotted by deed of partition to the said William Lawson who conveyed it to the said Brenton Haliburton who conveyed it to the said William G. Anderson. [...] Lot of land lying southward of the road leading from the jail to the common now called Spring Garden Road, being the northern half of a lot purchased by William Lawson and George Grassie from John Woodin.
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Adams and al. v. McLeod and al. - [1978] 2 SCR 621 - 1978-03-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
Bonnie Lynn Adams and William Walter Adams Appellants; and Libby McLeod and Irene Ramstead Respondents. [...] He was accompanied at that time by Bonnie Lynn Adams, his niece, the present appellant, and her husband, William Walter Adams, her co-appellant. [...] and at the same time a newly filed application for guardianship by William and Bonnie Adams was granted.
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Trusts & Guarantee Co. v. Buxton - [1929] SCR 529 - 1929-06-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
William Buxton (Defendant) Respondent 1929: May 1; 1929: June 13. Present:—Duff, Newcombe, Rinfret, Lamont and Smith JJ. [...] 4. A period of over six years has elapsed since the date of registration of said transfer and since the date of any payment on account or of any written acknowledgment of the said liability by the said Defendant, William Buxton. [...] Was the said liability of the Defendant, William Buxton, statute barred at the time of the commencement of this action, i.e., the 31st day of January, 1928?
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Cummings v. Taylor - (1898) 28 SCR 337 - 1898-05-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
William Cummings & Sons (Defendants) Appellants And Robert Taylor and Bauld Gibson & Co. (Plaintiffs) [...] William Cummings & Son being creditors of Neil McKinnon received the assets under the deed on account of the claim due to them by McKinnon and for which they were preferred. 2ndly. [...] After that determination the plaintiff Taylor instituted these proceedings, making the insolvent trustee under the assignment, and William Cummings & Sons and the Peoples' Bank of Halifax, the latter having received benefits under it, defendants, by which they sought:—
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Canadian Northern Ontario Rway Co. v. Holditch - (1914) 50 SCR 265 - 1914-10-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsExpropriation
By this award the majority arbitrators awarded the respondent William Ernest Holditch the sum of $5,315 for the lands entirely taken by the railway. [...] The majority arbitrators found as a fact appearing on the face of the award that the following additional lands of William Ernest Holditch, namely, lots (numbers), in the subdivision, [...] As a result of the judgment in the Fort William Case12, the “Railway Act” was amended so as to enable the adjacent abutting land-owners to receive compensation when the railway passes along or across a street.
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Gray v. Richford - (1878) 2 SCR 431 - 1878-06-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
William Richford and Andrew McConnell (Defendants) Respondents. 1878: February 2; 1878: June 3. [...] The Defendant, William Richford, besides denying the Plaintiffs title, asserted title in Andrew McCon- [...] William Gray, a son of James, and a brother of Adam, says Adam was in possession of the east half from 1845 to 1860.
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Faulds v. Harper - (1886) 11 SCR 639 - 1886-03-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
Elijah Washington Faulds, William Martin Faulds, James Linda Faulds, Wesley Bell Faulds and Matilda Elizabeth Faulds (Plaintiffs) Appellants; [...] In Randall v. Errington[19], Sir William Grant states the principle very distinctly as follows: [...] William Faulds died 1st July, 1858, in possession of the mortgaged premises, intestate, leaving his widow, Matilda, who is still living, and six children.
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Shields v. The London and Western Trusts Co. - [1924] SCR 25 - 1923-12-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
The London and Western Trusts Company, Administrator of the Estate of William B. Shields Deceased (Defendant) Respondent. [...] This farm had belonged to the late James Shields, father of the appellant and of the late William B. Shields. [...] Jessie Shields, John J. Shields, James Shields, the estate of William B. Shields and Catherine Leitch, as tenants in common, subject to the dower interest of Annie Shields, widow of the intestate.
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McConkey v. Thorn - [1972] SCR 61 - 1971-05-31
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
Cora Cecilia McConkey in her capacity as personal representative of the Estate of William McConkey, deceased (Plaintiff) Appellant; [...] HALL J.—This is an appeal from the dismissal by the Court of Appeal for Ontario of an appeal by one William McConkey, now deceased, from the dismissal of his action against the respondent by Moorhouse J. William McConkey died after an appeal had been taken to this Court but before the appeal was heard. [...] On being sued, the respondent took third party proceedings against Daniel and Simon Sorensen claiming contribution and relief over against these parties for all moneys and costs that the respondent might have to pay to William McConkey.
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Sterling Trusts Corpn. v. Postma et al. - [1965] SCR 324 - 1964-11-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
Sterling Trusts Corporation, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Dorothy Margaret Brown, Deceased, and William John Brown (Plaintiffs) Appellants; [...] Sterling Trusts Corporation, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Dorothy Margaret Brown, Deceased, and William John Brown (Plaintiffs) Appellants; [...] The plaintiff William John Brown and his wife sustained loss or damage by reason of the Little and Postma motor vehicles on a highway.
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O'Brien v. Cogswell - (1889) 17 SCR 420 - 1889-06-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
The land had belonged to William Holland a brother of John. William died in 1882, before the month of July. [...] The assessors seem to have treated the land as belonging to William's estate, and it is alleged in the pleadings of the defendants, but is not proved, that John held as trustee for the estate of William. [...] I know John Holland, of Halifax, a brother of William Holland, deceased.
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O'Grady v. Sparling - [1960] SCR 804 - 1960-10-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
APPEAL from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba1, dismissing an appeal from the judgment of Williams C.J.K.B. Appeal dismissed, Locke and Cartwright JJ. dissenting. [...] At page 82 of his work Glanville Williams says: Responsibility for some crimes may be incurred by the mere neglect to exercise due caution, where the mind is not actively but negatively or passively at fault. [...] To use the terminology of Glanville 'Williams, Parliament has enacted that "advertent negligence" in the operation of a motor vehicle is a crime.
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Creighton v. The Halifax Banking Co. - (1890) 18 SCR 140 - 1890-10-29
Supreme Court JudgmentsCommercial law
2. Where the proceeds of the note appropriated by the plaintiff bank, at the request of William Esson, to the payment of the indebtedness of Esson & Co. to the plaintiff bank? [...] 4. Had the plaintiff bank, at the time this note was discounted, notice that William Esson had no authority to sign the name of the firm of S. Creighton & Co. to this note? [...] 6. Had the firm of S. Creighton & Co. ever given authority to William Esson or the firm of Esson & Co. to sign notes for them in the management of the business of the firm of S. Creighton & Co.?
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In re Roach - [1931] SCR 512 - 1931-05-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
(3) The result was that, on John’s death, and after payment of the legacies to Thomas and William, the residue of the estate belonged to George, the estate of Martin, and the estate of Mary, in equal shares. [...] The personal representatives of those who died in the lifetime of John are entitled to the property (Williams on Executors, 11th ed., p. 800), subject to the power of apportionment now remaining to be discussed. [...] The scheme devised by the testatrix is that the entire estate is to be held in trust by the three executors, first to provide maintenance for John Roach, and “then to be divided among (the) remaining sons and daughter”, and the division is to be “as follows”: $1,000 to Thomas Roach, $1,000 to William J. Roach, and
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R. v. Kokopenace - 2015 SCC 28 - [2015] 2 SCR 398 - 2015-05-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book IV. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769. [...] With respect, the comparison to Williams is flawed. [85] Unlike my colleague’s proposed test, Williams did not involve a significant change to the law governing the jury selection process. [...] As the present Chief Justice wrote in Williams, racial prejudice is “insidious”.
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National Trust Co. Ltd. v. Fleury et al. - [1965] SCR 817 - 1965-06-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
William E. Fleury and Elinor M. Cameron and National Trust Company Limited, Harold Learoyd Steele and William Eric Fleury, trustees of the last will and testament and codicils of Herbert W. Fleury, deceased. [...] Terence Sheard, Q.C., and R. Hull, for the respondents: William E. Fleury and Elinor M. Cameron. [...] George W. Collins-Williams, Q.C., for the respondents: National Trust Co. Ltd., Harold Learoyd Steele and William E. Fleury.
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Hunt et al. v. The Queen - [1968] SCR 323 - 1968-03-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
In the Williams case, as in the present case, the Court was faced with a situation where the shares could be validly transferred in more than one place. [...] In Williams, the shares were validly transferable on registries in Ontario and in Buffalo, New York, so the problem arose that, for the purposes of provincial succession duty, one, and only one, local situs had [...] The appellant also relied on the decision of the Privy Council in Rex v. Williams (2).
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Grasett v. Carter - (1884) 10 SCR 105 - 1884-06-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
The plaintiff and the defendant owned adjoining properties abutting on the west side of Simcoe street, in the city of Toronto, and running through to the east side of William street. [...] Simcoe street was formerly called William street, and the street now called William street was formerly called Dummer street. [...] The land in dispute is part of park lot number 12, in the city of Toronto, which was originally granted by the Crown to the Hon., William Dummer Powell, who, in 1831, caused a plan to be prepared by Mr. Chewett, a surveyor, showing a sub-division of a portion of this park lot into streets and building lots.
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Coplen v. Callahan - (1899) 30 SCR 555 - 1899-10-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsMines and minerals
Charles Callahan, Administrator of The Estate of William Callahan, Deceased (Plaintiff) Respondent. [...] William Callaghan then brought an "adverse action" under the British Columbia Mining Act, R.S.B. C. ch. 135. [...] Before the appeal to the court en banc the plaintiff William Callahan died and the action was revived in the name of his executor.
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Ross v. Ross - (1894) 25 SCR 307 - 1894-03-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
See remarks by Sir William Grant in Morice v. The Bishop of Durham ([23]). [...] Then the intervention of William Russell Ross must be dismissed because he has no locus standl to maintain it. [...] The intervention of William Russell Ross and that of Morrin College must both be dismissed with costs payable to Frank Ross.
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R. v. Feeney - [1997] 2 SCR 13 - 1997-05-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
William F. Ehrcke, for the respondent. The following are the reasons delivered by [...] 60. After he was taken to the Williams Lake detachment, the appellant was fingerprinted. [...] The inculpatory statements the appellant made at Williams Lake virtually admitting guilt, and the breathalyser sample also taken at Williams Lake, were excluded by the trial judge and these rulings are not before this Court.
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Grassy Narrows First Nation v. Ontario (Natural Resources) - 2014 SCC 48 - [2014] 2 SCR 447 - 2014-07-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsAboriginal law
Andrew Keewatin Jr. and Joseph William Fobister, on their own behalf and on behalf of all other [...] Ontario, Cowichan Tribes, represented by Chief William Charles Seymour, on his own behalf and on behalf of the members of [...] Thomas F. Isaac, William J. Burden, Linda I. Knol and Brian P. Dominique, for the respondent Goldcorp Inc.
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Sullivan v. McGillis and Others - [1949] SCR 201 - 1949-02-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
They accepted that, as Fletcher Moulton L.J. observes in Hyams v. Stuart King (1908, 2 K.B. 696, 715), a long series of cases has settled that horse racing is within the statutes of Anne and William IV. [...] Section 2 of 9 Anne was not affected by the amending Act. By section 9 the provisions of section 2 of the Act of William were enacted; now embodied in section 2 of the existing statute. [...] Section 2 of the Statute of William was enacted to permit recovery where payment had been made by bill of exchange which had found its way into the hands of third parties; Sutters v. Briggs, ubi cit.