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Slander of females

Special

damage

CHAPTER 30.

An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Slander.

THE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

1. In any action of slander founded on words spoken of the plaintiff imputing unchastity, adultery or profligacy to a female, whether married or unmarried, it shall not be necessary to allege or prove any special damage but such words shall be actionable per se. C.O., c. 30, s. 1.

CHAPTER 31.

An Ordinance respecting Limitation of Actions in Certain Cases.

THE

'HE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

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1. All actions for recovery of merchants' accounts, bills, Actions on notes, and all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contracts other contract without specialty shall be commenced within six years after the cause of such action arose. C.O., c. 31, s. 1.

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2. The provisions of The Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, The Real being chapter 57 of the Statutes of the Imperial Parliament, Limitation passed in the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth years of Her in force Majesty's reign, are hereby declared to be in force and to have been in force in the Territories since the passing thereof. C.O.. c. 31, s. 2.

[3. No right to the access and use of light or any other easement, right in gross or profit a prendre shall be acquired by any person by prescription and no such right shall be deemed to have been so acquired prior to the coming into force of this Ordinance.] 1903 (2nd Session), c. 7, s. 1.

CHAPTER 32.

An Ordinance respecting Justices of the Peace.

(C.O., c. 32.)

Chapter 13, 1906, substituted; amended c. 5, s. 9, 1907;

c. 20, s. 10, 1908; c. 4, s. 8, 1909.

see also C.H. dec. 14. 1911-12.

CHAPTER 33.

An Ordinance respecting Constables.

(C.O., c. 33.)

Chapter 7, 1909, substituted.

Costs in distraints

rates in

schedule

CHAPTER 34.

An Ordinance respecting Distress for Rent and Extra-Judicial
Seizure.

THE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

1. No person whosoever making any distress for rent nor not to exceed any person whosoever employed in any manner in making such distress or doing any act whatsoever in the course of such distress or for carrying the same into effect shall have, take or receive out of the proceeds of the goods and chattels distrained upon and sold or from the tenant distrained on or from the landlord or from any other person whomsoever any other or more costs and charges for and in respect of such distress or any matter or thing done therein than such as are fixed in the schedule to this Ordinance and applicable to each proceeding which shall have been taken in the course of such distress and no person or persons whosoever shall make any charge whatsoever for any act, matter or thing mentioned in this Ordinance or in the said schedule unless such act, matter or thing shall have been really performed or done. C.O., c. 34, s. 1.

Seizure under chattel mortgages, etc., costs regulated

Penalty for taking excessive

costs

2. No person whosoever making any seizure under the authority of any chattel mortgage, bill of sale or any other extra judicial process whatsoever nor any person whosoever employed in any manner in making such seizure or doing any act whatsoever in the course of such seizure or for carrying the same into effect shall have, take or receive out of the proceeds of the goods and chattels seized and sold from the person against whom the seizure may be directed or from any other person whomsoever any other or more costs and charges for and in respect of such seizure or any matter or thing done therein or thereunder than such as are fixed in the schedule hereto and applicable to each act which shall have been done in course of such seizure and no person or persons whosoever shall make any charge whatsoever for any act or matter or thing mentioned in the said schedule unless such act, matter or thing shall have been really performed and done. C.O., c. 34,

s. 2.

3. If any person making any distress or seizure referred to in sections 1 and 2 of this Ordinance shall take or receive any other or greater costs than are set down in the said schedule or make any charge whatsoever for any act, matter or thing mentioned in the said schedule and not really performed or

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