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Scott v. The Queen - (1878) 2 SCR 349 - 1878-04-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
Present—Sir William Buell Richards, C.J., and Ritchie, Strong, Taschereau, Fournier and Henry, J. J.
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Brassard et al. v. Langevin - (1878) 2 SCR 319 - 1878-04-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
PRESENT: Sir William Buell Richards C. J., and Strong, Taschereau, Fournier and Henry, J.J.
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Pictou School Trustees v. Cameron - (1878) 2 SCR 690 - 1878-04-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
The Trustees of School Section No. 16 were possessed of the property on which this school house stood under a deed from William Thompson to James Macdonald, Donald Macdonald and Peter Ross, Trustees of School Section No. 16, dated 29th Oct., 1866, whereby Thompson, in consideration of $16, bargained and sold to said [...] William Thomas says: When the school house was taken off the foundation the windows were twisted.
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Somerville v. Laflamme - (1878) 2 SCR 216 - 1878-04-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
PRESENT:—Sir William Buell Richards, Knt., C.J., and Ritchie, Strong, Tauchereau, Fournier and Henry, J.J.
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Landers v. Woodworth - (1878) 2 SCR 158 - 1878-01-29
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Present:—Sir William Buell Richards, Knight, C.J., and Ritchie, Strong, Taschereau, and Fournier, J.J. [...] name of William Esson to be expunged, and the names of other persons to be inserted in the records. [...] Doyle v. Falconer[67]—before the judicial Committee of the Privy Council; present: Lord Westbury, Sir James William Colville, and Sir Edward Vaughan Williams—is
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Severn v. The Queen - (1878) 2 SCR 70 - 1878-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
Present:—Sir William Buell Richards, Knight, C.J., and Ritchie, Strong, Taschereau, Fournier and Henry, JJ. [...] Either the words "other licenses" must be construed to be of the same class as those mentioned in the preceding part of the sub-section: East London Water Works v. Mile End Old Town[14]; Reed v. Ingham[15]; Williams v. Golding[16]; this is also the view taken by Torrance, J., in the case of Angers v. The Queen Insurance [...] This is the rule as laid down by Chief Justice Erle in the case of Williams v. Golding[82], when construing the words "other person;" and by Lord Campbell, Chief Justice, in the case of Reed v. Ingham[83], while interpreting the words "other craft."
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St-George's v. King - (1878) 2 SCR 143 - 1878-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsArbitration
Present:—Sir William Buell Richards, C. J., and Ritchie, Strong, Taschereau, and Fournier, J.J. [...] [8] Williams' notes to Saunder's Rep., vol. 1, p. 37, and eases there collected. [...] [34] 1 Williams' Saunders, 33 a. [35] 8 C. B. N. S. 146. [36] 9 Ad. & E. 522.
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Darling v. Brown - (1877) 2 SCR 26 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
WILLIAM DARLING AND OTHERS appellants; AND ROBERT BROWN AND OTHERS [...] Besides the general issue Appellants pleaded that the ultimate result of the transactions between William Darling' Sen. and William Darling' Jun., made William Darling Sen. not a creditor but a debtor. [...] From that time until after the death of William Darling Sen. in 1871, William Darling Jun. continued this credit paid interest on it and rendered an annual statement to William Darling Sen.
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Johnstone v. The Minister & Trustees of St. Andrews Church, Montreal - (1877) 1 SCR 235 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsLease
The Statute under which the Defendants were created a Corporation, 12 Vic, Cap. 154, recites that the ground on which St. Andrew's Church was erected for the public worship and exercise of the religion of the Church of Scotland, in Montreal, was purchased by Alexander Rae and William Hunter, as Trustees, for the [...] Section 2.—The Corporation were to hold stand and be possessed of the lots of ground with the buildings thereon, forever, for the several limitations, trusts, provisions and uses declared and expressed in respect of the same by the deeds of sale referred to and the declaration by Alexander Rae and William Hunter (made [...] [82] Williams' Notes to Saunders, pp. 18, 19 [83] David v. , Thomas, 1 L. C. Jurist, p. 69.
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Liverpool and London and Globe Ins. Co. v. Wyld and Darling - (1877) 1 SCR 604 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
Frederick Wyld And Henry William Darling (Defendants) Respondents. 1877: June. [...] On that very day (the 10th of August) Plaintiffs wrote Hooper as follows: “We beg to advise you that we have added two flats over Mr. Williams’ store, next [...] “We beg to advise you that we have added two flats over Mr. Williams store, next door to our former premises, and that part of our stock is now in these flats.”
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McCraken v. McIntyre - (1877) 1 SCR 479 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCommercial law
Il transporta plus tard ces mêmes actions, avec quelques autres, à William Griffith, son frère, de qui l’Appelant McCraken en fit ensuite l’acquisition le 25 avril 1873. [...] Those shares, therefore, so alloted and paid for, were subsequently transferred to William Griffith, as fully paid-up shares, he purchasing them in good faith as such, and without notice that they were not so. [...] “The Respondent would then become a trustee of the shares for the Company as Williams had previously been.
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Nicholls v. Cumming - (1877) 1 SCR 395 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Cumming (Defendant) Respondent. 1877: January. Present: The Chief Justice, and Ritchie, Strong, Taschereau, Fournier and Henry, JJ. [...] Generally: Williams v. Dobert[43]; Cooley on Taxaion[44]. As to what constitutes an assessment: Blackwell on Tax Titles[45]; Cooley on Taxation[46].
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Trust and Loan Co. v. Ruttan - (1877) 1 SCR 564 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
the wife of the said Henry Huddlestone Thompson, during her life, and after her decease for the children of the said Henry Huddlestone Thompson on the body of his said wife to be begotten, as tenants in common, and in default of such issue for the heirs of one William Hamilton Thompson, and that the said Defendants hereto [...] The deed is in the hand writing of William Henry Van Ingren. The mortgage must have been drawn at Kingston and sent up to me.
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WM. Darling v. Robert Brown et Al - (1877) 1 SCR 360 - 1877-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil procedure
William Darling, senior, opened a credit in her favor with William Darling & Co., for this sum, so that the firm charged William [...] I think we must assume, under the evidence, that William [Page 379] [...] was made by William Darling, which took the case out of the Statutes.
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Kandick v. Morrison - (1877) 2 SCR 12 - 1877-06-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
William Kandick Appellant And Robert H. Morrison Respondent 1877: June 8, 9 [...] "which were of William Morrison, deceased, at the time of his death, in the hands of William Kandick to be administered, if the said William Kandick have so much thereof in his hands to be administered, or if not so much in his hands, then to make the costs out of the proper goods and chattels of said William Kandick." [...] "The within named William Kandick has no goods or chattels which were of the within named William Morrison, at the time of his death in his hands, to be administered in my bailiwick, whereof I can cause to be made the sum of $164.28 and interest, or any part
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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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Church v. Abell - (1877) 1 SCR 442 - 1877-01-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
See Marzetti v. Williams[15]; Doan v. Warren[16]; McLeod v. Boulton[17]; Mayne on Damages[18]. [...] This proposition is too elementary to require any authority, for it forms the first of the celebrated rules laid down by Sergeant Williams in his note to the leading case of Pordage v. Cole[48]. [...] [48] 1 Williams Notes to Sanders, 551; and see 2 Smith’s L.C. (Ed. 7) p. 14.
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Kelly v. Sulivan - (1877) 1 SCR 3 - 1877-01-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
Prince Edward Island, or the Island of St. John, as it was then called, previous to the year 1764, was under the same Government with the Province of Nova Scotia, and in giving the boundaries of that Province in the commission of William Campbell, Esq., commonly called Lord William Campbell, dated 11th August, 1766, [...] In the commission to Walter Patterson, dated 4th August, 1769, so much of the Patent to Lord William Campbell as mentioned the Island of St. John was revoked, and Patterson was appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Island and Territories adjacent thereto. [...] In Richards v. South Wales Railway Company, ([68]) Sir William Erle, in his judgment said: "It was admitted that the writ (of certiorari) was taken away as to all proceedings under the Acts (which he referred to), this rule therefore cannot be made abso-
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The Queen v. Taylor - (1877) 1 SCR 65 - 1877-01-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
In Evans v. Williams[15] it is laid down that it is a broad principle of construction that, unless the Court has a clear indication of an intention in an Act of Parliament to legislate ex post facto, and to give to the Act the effect of depriving a man of a right which belonged to him at the time of the passing [...] And William v. Smith[41] affirmed Jackson v. Wolley, and referred again with approval to Rolfe, B., observations in Moon v. Durden. [...] And in Evans v. Williams, as reported in 13th Weekly Reporter, 424, Kindersley, V.C., says: “But the ground on which I come to my conclusion, is, that unless the Court sees clearly an indication that the Legislature intended ex post facto to deprive a man of rights which existed at the time of the passing of the Act, it