Revue Du Barreau Canadien, Volume 3Carswell Company, 1925 - Bar associations |
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... tion . In this way the law is developed and this development is on- viously of very great importance , for the distinctive merit of a code is its brevity , and its purpose is not to provide for every possible contingency , but to lay ...
... tion . In this way the law is developed and this development is on- viously of very great importance , for the distinctive merit of a code is its brevity , and its purpose is not to provide for every possible contingency , but to lay ...
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... tion , if it be important , can be safely left to the Legislature . But I must say that this view has not always commended itself to the Quebec Court of Appeal . This court has on more than one occasion overruled its own previous ...
... tion , if it be important , can be safely left to the Legislature . But I must say that this view has not always commended itself to the Quebec Court of Appeal . This court has on more than one occasion overruled its own previous ...
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... tion when you come before the Quebec courts or before the Supreme Court of Canada in Quebec cases . I have now only to conclude by making a few and very general observations . We often hear of judge - made law , and I have confessed my ...
... tion when you come before the Quebec courts or before the Supreme Court of Canada in Quebec cases . I have now only to conclude by making a few and very general observations . We often hear of judge - made law , and I have confessed my ...
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... tion in realizing that there are Judges on the Canadian Bench who are not afraid to vindicate the majesty of the law in the fullest measure when occasion invokes such vindication . This summary power of punishment has been given to the ...
... tion in realizing that there are Judges on the Canadian Bench who are not afraid to vindicate the majesty of the law in the fullest measure when occasion invokes such vindication . This summary power of punishment has been given to the ...
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... tion . Its purpose is to make effective provincial laws " prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes . " The prohi- bition referred to indicates the substantial character which the pro- vincial enactment must ...
... tion . Its purpose is to make effective provincial laws " prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes . " The prohi- bition referred to indicates the substantial character which the pro- vincial enactment must ...
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Page 359 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 543 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 535 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
Page 403 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity or admiralty if the United States were suable...
Page 92 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 543 - tis too late. Lucio. You are too cold. [To Isabella. Isab. Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 370 - Republics that may grow, The Federations and the Powers; Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 481 - Dominion, save where the case is of gravity, involving matter of public interest, or some important question of law, or affecting property of considerable amount, or where the case is otherwise of some public importance or of a very substantial character.
Page 513 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Page 99 - If in any employment to which this Act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as herein-after mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act.