The Ontario Law Reports: Cases Determined in the Court of Appeal and in the High Court of Justice for Ontario, Volumen24

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Canada Law Book Company, 1911
 

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Página 148 - In order, however, that any such instrument when completed may be enforced against any person who became a party thereto prior to its completion, it must be filled up strictly in accordance with the authority given and within a reasonable time. But if any such instrument, after completion, is negotiated to a holder in due course, it is valid and effectual for all purposes in his hands, and he may enforce it as if it had been filled up strictly in accordance with the authority given and within a reasonable...
Página 60 - I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning, uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably intended to leave it unaltered, to see if the words of the enactment will bear an interpretation in conformity with this view.
Página 132 - Where a simple signature on a blank stamped paper is delivered by the signer in order that it may be converted into a bill, it operates as a primd facie authority to fill it up as a complete bill for any amount the stamp will cover, using the signature for that of the drawer, or the acceptor, or an indorser...
Página 168 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform, and did conform, where such injury resulted from his having so conformed...
Página 307 - And be it enacted, that if any person being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Página 148 - ... for any amount the stamp will cover, using the signature for that of the drawer, or the acceptor, or an indorser; and, in like manner, when a bill is wanting in any material particular, the person in possession of it has a prima facie authority to fill up the omission in any way he thinks fit.
Página 420 - Stock qualification, the appointment, functions, duties and removal of all agents, officers and servants of the Company...
Página 402 - It is a general and well settled principle that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to the same equity it was subject to in the hands of the assignor, but this rule is generally understood to mean the equity residing in the original obligor or debtor, and not an equity residing in some third person against the assignor.
Página 79 - Day to sell or publicly shew forth, or expose, or offer for sale, or to purchase, any goods, chattels, or other personal property, or any real estate whatsoever, or to do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of his ordinary calling, (conveying Travellers or Her Majesty's Mail by land, or by water, selling Drugs and Medicines, and other works of necessity, and works of charity, only excepted.) — 8 V., c.
Página 191 - And as to all the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, I give, devise, and bequeath the same unto Anne, the Lady of Sir Thomas Mantell, knt.

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