Lower-Canada Reports

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E. R. Fréchette, 1854

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Pàgina 199 - Britain; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same...
Pàgina 242 - ... in actions of debt or upon the case grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take any case out of the operation of the...
Pàgina 470 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm...
Pàgina 42 - ... collision, he shall put the helm of his vessel to port, so as to pass on the port side of the other vessel...
Pàgina 267 - And as steam vessels may be considered in the light of vessels navigating with a fair wind and should give way to sailing vessels on a wind on either tack it becomes only necessary to provide a rule for their observance when meeting other steamers or sailing vessels going large.
Pàgina 352 - ... to the rules of evidence laid down by the laws of England...
Pàgina 472 - All crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects, which officers and soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, though not mentioned in the foregoing articles of war, are to be taken cognizance of by a general, or a regimental, garrison, or field officers' court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and punished at the discretion of such court.
Pàgina 248 - It is a wise and beneficial law, not designed merely to raise a presumption of payment of a just debt, from lapse of time, but to afford security against stale demands, after the true state of the transactions may have been forgotten or be incapable of explanation by reason of the death or removal of witnesses.
Pàgina 70 - I am here bound by my own judicial oath " to well and truly try the issue joined between the parties, and a true verdict give according to the evidence...
Pàgina 101 - Month after notice in writing shall have been delivered to him, or left at his usual place of abode, by the attorney or agent of the party who intends to sue out such writ or process, in which notice shall be clearly and explicitly contained the cause of...

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