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Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada v. Douglas - (1918) 57 SCR 243 - 1918-10-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
"The mortgage being foreclosed" (said Sir William Grant) "the estate becomes absolutely his." [...] Nor do the decisions in Williams v. Box[23], and Smith v. National Trust Co.[24], materially aid either party. [...] Mr. Justice Idington emphasises the fact in Williams v. Box, 23 at p. 12.
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Cameron v. Church of Christ, Scientist - (1918) 57 SCR 298 - 1918-10-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
William C Moore and the survivor of them as they may appoint to be my sole Executors and Trustees of this my Will, but declaring that these Presents are granted in trust always for the purpose aftermentioned, viz.: (First) I direct my Executors and Trustees to first pay my just debts, personal and testamentary expenses. [...] Christian Science Practitioner, Mr. William C. Moore, Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Manufacturer, and the survivor of them, as Trustees and in trust for the purposes aftermentioned the whole estate and effects, heritable and movable, real and personal, presently belonging to me and that shall belong to me at the time of my decease,
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Ray v. Willson - (1911) 45 SCR 401 - 1911-12-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
I am also of opinion that the same conclusion will follow if it be considered upon the broad grounds upon which Vaughan Williams L.J. has based his judgment, in which I entirely concur. [...] There was a statement also made by the witness between his first statement to his own counsel and the first statement to the learned trial judge in which he refers to a note of another party for which Thompson was responsible and he says, speaking of what he held this note for: “there was a note of a man named Williams whom [...] Smith v. Prosser[35], at page 744, per Vaughan Williams L.J. The promissory notes never became negotiable instruments, the reason being that the defendant never issued them nor authorized any one else to issue them as negotiable instruments.
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Duggan v. London & Canadian Loan Co. - (1892) 20 SCR 481 - 1892-05-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsSecurities
See Cole v. The North-western Bank[4]; Williams v. The Colonial Bank[5]. [...] See also Williams v. The Colonia Bank5. [Page 484] As to the intention of the parties in the transaction between Duggan and Scarth & Cochran see Bradford Banking Co. v. Briggs[10]. [...] See Williams v. The Colonial Bank[16] and City Bank v. Barrow[17]. The respondents took shares without notice and the appellant must show some equitable ground upon which they should be re-transferred.
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Palsky et al. v. Humphrey et al./ Sillito et al. v. Humphrey et al. - [1964] SCR 580 - 1964-06-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
Archibald Ashton Humphrey and Frank Byrne, administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Peter William Harvie, deceased (Defendants) Respondents. [...] Archibald Ashton Humphrey and Frank T. Byrne, administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Peter William Harvie, Deceased (Defendants) Respondents. [...] William Oswold, a garageman in Milk River, swore that the late Peter Harvie brought the Humphrey car into his garage around 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon and there had three tires repaired.
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Northern Grain Co. v. Goderich Elevator & Transit Co. - [1926] SCR 120 - 1925-12-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
DUFF J.—The appellant company, which carries on business as a grain dealer with its principal place of business at Winnipeg, in the spring of 1923 had a considerable quantity of grain in elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William. [...] P.S.—We will give you advices of forwarding as soon as the same is loaded at Fort William. [...] Martian, ex Fort William May 28, in care of your good selves at Goderich, contained in Hold no. 3, shipment for our account of 24, 427.12 of no. 2 feed oats had gone forward.
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Transport North American Express Inc. v. New Solutions Financial Corp. - 2004 SCC 7 - [2004] 1 SCR 249 - 2004-02-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
William E. Thomson Associates Inc. v. Carpenter (1989), 61 D.L.R. (4th) 1. [...] 23 The same approach was taken by the Court of Appeal for Ontario in William E. Thomson Associates Inc. v. Carpenter (1989), 61 D.L.R. (4th) 1. [...] As the reasoning in Milani and William E. Thomson demonstrates, we have moved a long way beyond that mechanical approach.
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Re B.C. Motor Vehicle Act - [1985] 2 SCR 486 - 1985-12-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Criminal law
Williams, G. Criminal Law, The General Part, 2nd ed., London, Stevens & Sons Ltd., 1961. [...] William Henkel, Q.C., and D. W. Kinloch, for the intervener the Attorney General for Alberta. [...] (Glanville Williams, Criminal Law, The General Part, 2nd ed. (London, 1961), at p. 30.)
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R. v. Boisjoly - [1972] SCR 42 - 1971-04-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
An Act to allow Quakers and Moravians to make Affirmation in all Cases where an Oath is or shall be required—(1833) 3 &4 William IV, c. 49, see s. II. [...] In 1769, in the 4th volume of his Commentaries on the Laws of England (cf. p. 137 of the reprint made in 1966 of the first edition), Sir William Blackstone writes: [...] Legislation was introduced to put an end to the practice: see the Imperial statute, (1835) 5-6 William IV, c. 62, s. XIII, and the Canadian statute (1874) 37 Victoria, c. 37, ss. 1 and 2.
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Montano v. Sanchez - [1964] SCR 317 - 1964-03-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsInternational law
William Hugh Masson Wardrope, Trustee Under the last Will and Testament of John Duff MacDonald, deceased (Applicant) Respondent. [...] F.S. Weatherston, Q.C., for the respondent, William Hugh Masson Wardrope. [...] Solicitors for the respondent, William Hugh Masson Wardrope: Griffin, Jones, Weatherston, Bowlby, Malcolm & Stringer, Soule & Soule, Hamilton.
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Shaw v. McKenzie - (1881) 6 SCR 181 - 1881-03-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil procedure
WILLIAM S. SHAW Appellant; And KENNETH MCKENZEE et al Respondent. [...] That deponent has reason to believe, and verily believes, that the said William J. Shaw, one of the defendants, who is presently in the said city of Montreal, is about to leave immediately the province of Canada, and Dominion of Canada, with intent to defraud his creditors in general and the p1aintiffs in particular, and [...] that such departure will deprive plaintiffs of their recourse against the said William J.Shaw; that the reasons of the said deponent for stating his belief asabove, are : that Mr.Powis, the deponent's . partner, wasinformed last night inToronto, by one Howarda broker, that the said W.J.Shaw was leaving immediately the
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Reference re Maritime Freight Rates Act - [1933] SCR 423 - 1933-06-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
“Example: Board’s Order No. 40130, dated 7th January, 1928, re rates on fruits and vegetables, canned, and apples, evaporated, from Port Williams and Sheffield Mills, N.S., via Dominion Atlantic and connecting lines to destinations in the Canadian Northwest. [...] “(a) Effective 12th December, 1927, rates on fruits and vegetables, canned, and apples, evaporated, from Port Williams and Sheffield Mills, N.S., via Dominion Atlantic and connecting lines to points in the Canadian Northwest, were reduced under the Act to the same basis as applied from other canning points on the Dominion [...] level originally approved under the Act, to meet competition by motor truck and water via Kingsport and Port Williams.
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R. v. Vu - 2012 SCC 40 - [2012] 2 SCR 411 - 2012-07-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book IV. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769. [...] Hawkins, William. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to That Subject, Digested Under Proper Heads, vol. [...] Russell, Sir William Oldnall. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, vol.
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Anderson v. Amoco Canada Oil and Gas - 2004 SCC 49 - [2004] 3 SCR 3 - 2004-07-16
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
James William Murdoch and Andrew John Murdoch Appellants v. Amoco Canada Oil and Gas, Amoco Canada Resources Ltd., [...] Russell E. Thorp and William J. Thorp, Co‑executors of the Estates of Hilmer Magnus Thorp and Pearl Mary Thorp, [...] William R. Pieschel, Q.C., for the respondents Canadian Pacific Limited and PanCanadian Petroleum Limited.
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R. v. Prince - [1986] 2 SCR 480 - 1986-11-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Braithwaite, William J. "Developments in Criminal Law and Procedure: The 1979‑80 Term" (1981), 2 Supreme Court L. R. 177. [...] Braithwaite, William J. "Down to the Core of the Kienapple" (1979), 9 C.R. (3d) 88. [...] William J. Braithwaite, "Down to the Core of the Kienapple" (1979), 9 C.R. (3d) 88; Roger E. Salhany, Canadian Criminal Procedure (4th ed. 1984), at pp. 258‑63; Heather Leonoff and David Deutscher, "The Plea and Related Matters", in Vincent Del Buono (ed.), Criminal Procedure in Canada (1982), at pp. 258‑62; William J.
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Smith et al. v. McInnis et al. - [1978] 2 SCR 1357 - 1978-03-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsProfessional law
George I. Smith, Kenneth M. Matthews, William J. Grant, Lorne O. Clarke, Donald J. MacDonald, James C. Leefe, David R. Hubley and Wayne Anstey, a partnership under the name of Patterson, Smith, Matthews & Grant (Third Parties) Appellants; [...] Alexander D. McInnis, William F. Meehan and T. Daniel Tramble, a partnership under the name of Mclnnis, Meehan & Tramble (Defendants) Respondents. [...] In the same book, Glanville Williams expresses the opinion that the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945 (U.K.), is applicable to liability in contract as well as in tort.
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Munroe v. Lefevre - (1920) 61 SCR 284 - 1920-12-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
Elle partit ensuite pour aller demeurer aux Etats-Unis, ainsi que la plupart des légataires et héritiers de James O'Connell, à l'exception de John O'Connell, le mari de la défenderesse, et le défendeur William John O'Connell et son frère et ses soeurs. [...] Mais cette entrée peut s'expliquer par le fait que les enfants de John O'Connell, notamment le défendeur William-John alias James O'Connell et Mary Maria O'Connell [...] En 1907, les lots 266 et 360 ont été vendus par la corporation du comté de Québec pour taxes municipales dues à la corporation de Sainte-Foy, et Mary Stuart Munroe et son fils William John O'Connell s'en sont rendus adjudicataires pour le montant des
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Township of Ellice v. Hiles / Township of Ellice v. Crooks - (1894) 23 SCR 429 - 1894-05-31
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
That is held by our courts and, we submit, by the Privy Council, in Williams v. Township of Raleigh[8]. [...] As to the liability of the municipality for negligence see Williams v. Raleigh[21]; Sombra v. Chatham[22] [...] I may be excused if I add a few lines for the purpose of correcting an erroneous impression as to my judgment in Williams v. Raleigh[32] which appears to be entertained by my learned brother Mr. Justice Burton, of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
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The Queen v. Chesley - (1888) 16 SCR 306 - 1888-03-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsGuarantee and suretyship
Re North of England Joint Stock Banking Co.[16]; Stewart v. Boak[17]; Seton v. Lafone[18]; Easton v. London Joint Stock Bank[19]; Williams v. Colonial Bank[20]. [...] Williams J. and Willes J. took a different view, but, as [Page 325] [...] They thought it would be inconvenient to carry the principle of Young v. Grote[39] beyond negotiable instruments, Williams J. using this illustration:
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Gladstone v. Canada (Attorney General) - 2005 SCC 21 - [2005] 1 SCR 325 - 2005-04-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsFishery
Donald Gladstone and William Gladstone Respondents Coram: McLachlin C.J. and Major, Bastarache, Binnie, LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella and Charron JJ. [...] Donald Gladstone and William Gladstone Respondents Indexed as: Gladstone v. Canada (Attorney General) [...] 2 On April 28, 1988, the respondents, Donald and William Gladstone, were arrested for attempting to sell 4,200 lbs. of herring spawn on kelp (“spawn”) in violation of the Fisheries Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. F‑14.
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Murphy v. Welsh; Stoddard v. Watson - [1993] 2 SCR 1069 - 1993-09-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
William S. Zener, for the respondents. William Morris, Q.C., and Michael W. Kelly, for the interveners Sharon‑Leigh Murphy and Jamie Murphy by his litigation guardian, Sharon‑Leigh Murphy. [...] Solicitor for the interveners Sharon-Leigh Murphy and Jamie Murphy by his Litigation Guardian, Sharon Murphy: William Morris, Hamilton.
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R. v. Dobberthien - [1975] 2 SCR 560 - 1974-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Michael William Dobberthien Appellant; and Her Majesty The Queen Respondent. [...] I quote the learned trial judge’s comments when admitting the evidence of Sergeant John William Fitzpatrick: [...] He was therefore in the same position as Sergeant John William Fitzpatrick as to whom the Court had made the remark which I have quoted above in reference to the weighing of his evidence.
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Re: Schumiatcher - [1962] SCR 38 - 1961-09-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The order recites that the accused was so relieved of his obligations and then commands W. H. Williams, Sheriff of the Judicial Centre of Regina, to take the accused into custody and convey him to Regina Gaol. [...] On the same day, an order was made by a Judge of this Court directing the issue of a Writ of Habeas Corpus to W. H. Williams, the Sheriff, and to the Keeper of the Regina [...] The declaration does refer to a statement of claim in an action brought by a plaintiff, whose name I cannot read, against Columbia Metals Exploration Co. Ltd., Western Bond and Share Corporation Limited, William Luboff, John J. Abbott, Edward Leier and Laurence Tetrault.
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Tremblay v. Vermette - [1959] SCR 690 - 1959-06-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsBankruptcy and insolvency
William Tremblay (Defendant) Appellant; and J. P. Vermette (Plaintiff) Respondent; [...] D'ACCEPTER l'application de monsieur William Tremblay Sr, pour l'achat comptant et immédiat de 1500 actions du capital-actions de Best Wood Manufacturing Limited, au prix de $10.00 l'action à savoir pour un montant global de $15,000. [...] Le secrétaire expose à l'assemblée que le président de la compagnie, Monsieur William Tremblay Sr a déjà avancé une somme de $15,000 laquelle a été déposée à la Banque Provinciale du Canada au compte de la compagnie.
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Wright and Maginnis v. Long Branch (Village) - [1959] SCR 418 - 1959-02-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
William Howard Wright and Percy Maginnis (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and [...] described in a conveyance from Samuel T. Wright to William Howard Wright and Percy Maginnis dated April 8th, 1946, and registered as Instrument No. 4825 in Book D, Village of Long Branch on the 10th April 1946, excepting therefrom that portion of the said lands which has been appropriated for and established as a War [...] In the course of the argument the question was raised from the bench as to whether the Attorney-General was not a necessary party to the action as framed and reference was made to the judgment of Schrœder J., as he then was, in Williams and Wilson Ltd. v. Toronto[14].