The Municipal Manual for Upper Canada: Containing the New Municipal and Assessment Acts, with Notes of All Decided Cases, Some Additional Statutes and a Full Index

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W.C. Chewett & Company, 1867 - 692 pages

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Page 329 - Action may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence...
Page 42 - So that upon the whole the only adequate definition of felony seems to be that which is before laid down; viz. an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands, or goods, or both, at the common law; and to which capital or other punishment may be superadded, according to the degree of guilt.
Page 317 - CD the sum of for his costs in this behalf ; and if the said several sums be not paid forthwith [or on or before next] I adjudge the said...
Page 614 - Act, shall be commenced within Six Calendar Months next after the Fact committed, and not afterwards...
Page 282 - ... shall be allowed such sum as may have been necessarily paid out, or contracted to be paid, for the relief or support of such...
Page 85 - And it shall be the duty of the mayor to be vigilant and active at all times, in causing the laws for the government of said city to be duly executed and put in force ; to inspect the conduct of all subordinate officers in the government thereof, and as far as in his power, to cause all negligence, carelessness, and positive violation of duty to be duly prosecuted and punished.
Page 353 - ... all trees and underwood growing upon land, and all mines, minerals, quarries and fossils in and under the same, except mines belonging to the state. A franchise, right, authority or permission specified in this subdivision shall for the purpose of taxation be known as a
Page 134 - Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award; and it shall not in any Indictment for such Offence be necessary to allege that the Article, in respect of which the Offence is committed, is the Property of any Person, or that the same is of any Value.
Page 166 - Corporation, and shall annex to every precept the roll of such rate, and shall by such precept after reciting the Writ, and that the Corporation had neglected to satisfy the same, and referring to the roll annexed to the precept, command the...
Page 394 - ... on oath of all parties whether claiming or objecting or objected to and all other persons whatsoever and for the production of books, papers, rolls and documents and for the enforcement of his orders, decisions and judgments as belong to or might be, exercised by him in the supreme court; 9.

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