Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New BrunswickKing's Printer, 1856 |
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Act relating Act to amend Act to incorporate aforesaid Albert Mining amount appointed assessment Bank bye laws capital stock Cashier certificate Church Wardens City of Saint Clerk Commissioners Company Corporation Councillors County of Saint County of York Court debts deemed Directors duties election enacted Excellency the Lieutenant fee simple five pounds Fredericton Governor in Council Governor the sum Grand Falls granted hundred and fifty hundred pounds intituled An Act Justice lands lative Council Legis Legislative Council liable Lieutenant Governor Lord one thousand Mayor meeting Moncton Nova Scotia paid Parish Parish of Saint Passed 1st Passed 26th March payment person or persons Portland present Majesty President Principal Secretary Province purpose Railway recited Act Rector regulations Reign Saint Andrews Saint John Saint Stephen Section shareholders shares Shediac shillings stockholders thereof thousand eight hundred thousand pounds Town Trustees vested Vestry vote Ward Chipman Westmorland
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Page 119 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness, or otherwise, of the writing in dispute.
Page 154 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 37 - Any contract, agreement, sale, conveyance and assurance, so made hereunder shall be valid and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever...
Page 115 - ... on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or...
Page 113 - But nothing herein contained shall render any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself...
Page 115 - ... or official character of the person appearing to have signed the same.
Page 118 - Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement 4.
Page 118 - ... a certificate containing the substance and effect only (omitting the formal part) of the indictment and conviction for such offence, purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Court, or other officer having the custody of the Records of the Court where the offender was...
Page 18 - ... for one share and not more than two shares one vote; for every two shares, above two and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four shares above ten and not exceeding thirty, one vote; for every six shares above thirty and not exceeding sixty, one vote; for every eight shares above sixty and not exceeding one hundred, one vote...
Page 119 - It shall not be necessary to prove by the attesting witness any instrument to the validity of which attestation is not requisite ; and such instrument may be proved by admission or otherwise, as if there had been no attesting witness thereto.