The Ontario Law Reports: Cases Determined in the Court of Appeal and in the High Court of Justice for Ontario, Volume 5

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Canada Law Book Company, 1903
"Cases determined in the Supreme Court of Ontario (Appellate and High Court Divisions)" (varies)

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Page 421 - ... where, from the nature of the contract, it appears that the parties must from the beginning have known that it could not be fulfilled, unless when the time for the...
Page 158 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 198 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 372 - All persons may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative, any right to relief in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any question of law or fact common to all of them will arise in the action.
Page 663 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Canada...
Page 663 - Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces, and for greater Certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes...
Page 144 - I think the fallacy lies in overlooking the fact that a word may acquire in a trade a secondary signification differing from its primary one, and that if it is used to persons in the trade who will understand it, and be known and intended to understand it, in its secondary sense, it will none the less be a falsehood that in its primary sense it may be true.
Page 200 - This Act shall apply only to the importation or immigration of such persons as reside in or are citizens of such foreign countries as have enacted and retained in force, or as enact and retain in force, laws or ordinances applying to Canada, of a character similar to this Act.
Page 311 - That an action will lie for written or oral falsehoods, not actionable per se nor even defamatory, where they are maliciously published, where they are Calculated in the ordinary course of things to produce, and where they do produce, actual damage, is established law.
Page 200 - SEC. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay the transportation or in any way to assist or encourage the importation or migration of any alien into the United States...

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