The Montreal Law Reports: Court of Queen's Bench, 2. köide

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Gazette printing Company, 1886

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Page 172 - Viet. c. 109, s. 18, it is enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 28 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, points, locomotive engine, or train upon a railway...
Page 404 - Majesty's superior courts of record ; and no warrant of commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.
Page 29 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Page 37 - In all cases where the person injured by the commission of an offence or a quasioffence dies in consequence, without having obtained indemnity or satisfaction, his consort and his ascendant and descendant relations have a right, but only within a year after his death, to recover from the person who committed the offence or quasi-offence, or his representatives, all damages occasioned by such death.
Page 322 - This policy is issued and accepted by the assured upon the following express conditions and agreements * * * if any of the declarations or statements made in the application for this policy, upon the faith of which this policy is issued, shall be found in any respect untrue * * * then and in every such case this policy shall be null and void.
Page 29 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death, to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 424 - And it shall and may be lawful for the said vessel, in her voyage, to proceed...
Page 211 - The district assigned to a church or priest ; to whom its ecclesiastical dues and generally also its tithes are paid. The boundaries of the parish and the township or townships with which it coincides, are generally the same; in small parishes the idea and even name of township is frequently, at the present day, sunk in that of the parish ; and all the business that is not manorial is despatched in vestry meetings, which are however primarily meetings of the township for church purposes.
Page 427 - Cash for Vessel's ordinary disbursements at Port of Loading to be advanced by Charterers, if required by master, at current rate of exchange, subject to insurance and two and a half per cent, commission.

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