The Ontario Law Reports: Cases Determined in the Court of Appeal and in the High Court of Justice for Ontario, 45. köideCanada Law Book Company, 1919 "Cases determined in the Supreme Court of Ontario (Appellate and High Court Divisions)" (varies) |
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Page 672 - Negligence has been defined to be '' the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do:
Page 526 - 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 appears by the will.
Page 658 - of contracts is the loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the breach. There is no power in the Courts to add a penalty: as in some actions for wrongs there may be.
Page 168 - by the plaintiff from the judgment of ROSE, J., pronounced at the trial, dismissing the action at the close of the plaintiff's case, on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury. The plaintiff was a passenger on a car of the defendants,
Page 526 - 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 appears by the will.
Page 183 - Court sees fit regarding the custody of the infant and the right of access thereto of either parent, having regard to the welfare of the infant, and to the conduct of the parents, and to the wishes as well of the mother as of the father. This section
Page 4 - Section 68 contains these expressions: "If any party shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of any lands, or of any interest therein, which shall have been taken for or injuriously affected by the execution of the works . . .
Page 524 - intention to exclude the later mortgage appearing by the will, it spoke and took effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator; and the
Page 606 - but on the ground that a violation of legal right committed knowingly is a cause of action, and that it is a violation of legal right to interfere with contractual relations recognised by law if there be no sufficient justification for the interference;
Page 656 - of damages for breach of a contract is the loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the breach: the Court has no power to add a