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1,676.
Harris v. Robinson - (1892) 21 SCR 390 - 1892-10-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
title had not been registered; and secondly, that there appeared on the registry to be an annuity or rent charge which formed an incumbrance upon the lands having been granted by one Perry in favour of Sir William Campbell when Perry purchased from Campbell as part security for payment of the purchase money on that sale.
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Lakefield Lumber and Manufacturing Co. v. Shairp - (1891) 19 SCR 657 - 1891-11-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsState
William Shairp (Plaintiff) Respondent. 1891: February 4, 5; 1891: November 17.
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Lynch v. Seymour - (1888) 15 SCR 341 - 1888-03-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Solicitors for respondent: Clute & Williams. [1] 12 Ont. App. R. 525.
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Carvill v. Schofield - (1883) 9 SCR 370 - 1883-06-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsMaritime law
Present.—Sir William J. Ritchie, Knight, C. J., and Strong, Fournier, Henry and Taschereau, JJ.
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Holman v. Green - (1881) 6 SCR 707 - 1881-05-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
PRESENT—Sir William J. Ritchie, Kt., C.J., and Strong, Fournier, Henry and Gwynne, JJ.
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Mowat v. McFee - (1880) 5 SCR 66 - 1880-06-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsFishery
William McFee Respondent 1880: May 4, 5; 1880: June 10. Present.—Ritchie, C. J., and Fournier, Henry, Taschereau, and Gwynne, J.J.
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Standly v. Perry - (1879) 3 SCR 356 - 1879-05-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsMaritime law
Robert William Standly et al. (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and Ebenezer Perry et al.
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In re Marriage Laws - (1912) 46 SCR 132 - 1912-06-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
There is a very curious bit of advice which was given in 1722 and which will be found reported in 2 Peere Williams’s Reports[56]. [...] The Master of the Rolls, Sir William Grant, in The Attorney-General v. Stewart[84], is reported as citing, apparently with approval, a passage from Blackstone, vol. 1, page 100. [...] On that occasion the following opinion was given by Sir Frederick Pollock and Sir William Webb Follett (a lawyer second to none of the great lawyers of his time):—
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Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd. v. Structal Heavy Steel - 2015 SCC 43 - [2015] 3 SCR 127 - 2015-09-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsKevin T. Williams and Kyla A. Pedersen, for the respondent. The judgment of the Court was delivered by
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R. v. O'Brien - 2011 SCC 29 - [2011] 2 SCR 485 - 2011-06-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Kenneth W. F. Fiske, Q.C., and William D. Delaney, for the appellant.
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Canada (Justice) v. Khadr - 2008 SCC 28 - [2008] 2 SCR 125 - 2008-05-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Evidence
[11] Also included in the first application is an affidavit from Lt. Cdr. William Kuebler, Mr. Khadr’s defence counsel in the military commission proceedings, updating the Court on developments in relevant U.S. law.
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Morris v. The Queen - [1983] 2 SCR 190 - 1983-10-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
Proof of the motive for a crime is generally admitted as circumstantial evidence: in his Textbook of Criminal Law, Glanville Williams writes at p. 56:
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R. v. Faid - [1983] 1 SCR 265 - 1983-03-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Professor Glanville Williams in his Textbook of Criminal Law (1978), at p. 480, makes the point that in order to have the defence of provocation the defendant must have killed because he was provoked, not merely because provocation existed.
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Goodman v. Rompkey et al. - [1982] 1 SCR 589 - 1982-05-10
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
The Honourable William Rompkey and the Attorney General of Canada Respondents.
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Fulton et al. v. Energy Resources Conservation Board et al. - [1981] 1 SCR 153 - 1981-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Alberta. T.B. Smith, Q.C., for the Attorney General of Canada.
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Attorney General (Que.) v. Kellogg’s Co. of Canada et al. - [1978] 2 SCR 211 - 1978-01-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the Attorney-General of Alberta. Ken Lysyk, Q.C., and G.V. Peacock, for the Attorney-General of Saskatchewan.
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Kirzner v. R. - [1978] 2 SCR 487 - 1977-12-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Professor Glanville Williams in his work The Criminal Law, The General Part (2nd ed. 1961) at p. 785 says this:
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Cotroni v. Quebec Police Commission - [1978] 1 SCR 1048 - 1977-11-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsAdministrative law
Courts
Although the Code does not say it explicitly, it seems to me that the principle stated by Vaughan Williams J. in Re Armstrong[11], (cited in Poje[12], at p. 519) would apply and that the imprisonment should end ex debito justitiae as soon as the person incarcerated agrees to comply with the order of the court, just as the
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Morgan et al. v. A.G. (P.E.I.) et al. - [1976] 2 SCR 349 - 1975-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
William Henkel, Q.C., for the intervenant, the Attorney General of Alberta.
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Penvidic v. International Nickel - [1976] 1 SCR 267 - 1975-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Torts
‘If in the contract one finds the time limited within which the builder is to do the work, that means, not only that he is to do it within that time, but it means also that he is to have that time within which to do it.’ (Per Vaughan Williams L.J. in Wells v. Army & Navy Co‑operative Society (1902) 86 L.T. 764; Hudson’s
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R. v. Nabis - [1975] 2 SCR 485 - 1974-06-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
In this regard, appellant’s counsel urged that mere words cannot, under s. 244, amount to an assault, a proposition which is generally accepted though it may sometimes be disputed: Glanville Williams, “Assault and Words”, [1957] Crim.
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Child v. Vancouver General Hospital et al. - [1970] SCR 477 - 1969-12-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
It was again cited by Rinfret J. in Coca-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. v. Forbes[4], and by Hall J. in Byron v. Williams[5].
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Minister of National Revenue v. Dworkin Furs (Pembroke) Ltd. et al. - [1967] SCR 223 - 1967-01-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
In the case of Alpine Drywall & Decorating Limited, the shareholding situation was that one William Jager owned 50 per cent of the issued shares and Clarence Wagenaar the other 50 per cent.
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Zeballos District Mine & Mill Workers Union, Local 851 v. Labour Relations Board of B.C. - [1966] SCR 465 - 1966-04-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
Solicitors for the respondent, Labour Relations Board of British Columbia: Paine, Edmonds, Mercer, Smith & Williams, Vancouver.
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St. Mary's Parish Credit Union Ltd. v. T.M. Ball Lumber Co. Ltd. - [1961] SCR 310 - 1961-03-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
The result of decisions of this court in Jellett v. Wilkie, (1896) 26 Can. S.C.R. 282, Williams v. Box, (1910) 44 Can. S.C.R. 1, Smith v. National Trust Co., (1912) 45 Can. S.C.R. 618, Yockney v. Thomson, (1914) 50 Can. S.C.R. 1, Grace v. Kuebler, (1917) 56 Can. S.C.R. 1, and other cases, is that, notwithstanding such