The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900, 19. köideC.F. Maxwell, 1898 |
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... person . other than yourself can acquire any interest in or obtain the use of the land now applied for ? 3. Is there any understanding between you and any person that will tend to defeat or evade the provisions of the law as to ...
... person . other than yourself can acquire any interest in or obtain the use of the land now applied for ? 3. Is there any understanding between you and any person that will tend to defeat or evade the provisions of the law as to ...
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... person must have put the Minister in motion to have an enquiry held as to whether , when he made his application , he had returned certain false answers to the questions then put to him . I would point out that the proper time for ...
... person must have put the Minister in motion to have an enquiry held as to whether , when he made his application , he had returned certain false answers to the questions then put to him . I would point out that the proper time for ...
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... person employed in the public service , within the meaning of the Act 59 Vic . No. 25 , s . 58 , and the alleged grievances in the declaration mentioned were the exercise by the said Government of the right and power of the Crown , in ...
... person employed in the public service , within the meaning of the Act 59 Vic . No. 25 , s . 58 , and the alleged grievances in the declaration mentioned were the exercise by the said Government of the right and power of the Crown , in ...
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... person employed in the public service . " Can these words be reasonably construed so as to include persons who are not employed in the public service , and who , like the respondent , had ceased to be so before its power of summary ...
... person employed in the public service . " Can these words be reasonably construed so as to include persons who are not employed in the public service , and who , like the respondent , had ceased to be so before its power of summary ...
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... person injured of the remedy which the law then gave him . Their Lordships do not suggest that the language of s . 58 is , in any sense , ambiguous . On the contrary , its enactments appear to them to have plain reference to persons who ...
... person injured of the remedy which the law then gave him . Their Lordships do not suggest that the language of s . 58 is , in any sense , ambiguous . On the contrary , its enactments appear to them to have plain reference to persons who ...
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A. H. SIMPSON act of bankruptcy affidavit alleged amount application assessment attorney bank bankrupt bankruptcy bill of sale Broken Hill C.J. Eq charge Chenhall CHIEF JUSTICE claim co-respondent Cohen Commissioners conditional purchase contended contract costs covenant creditors Crown Lands Act debts deceased decision declaration deduction deed defendants entitled equity evidence Ex parte WILSON fact fee simple granted ground H. R. Cox held Honour improvements interest issue Judge judgment jurisdiction jury Kelynack Land Appeal Court Land Board lease lessees liable Lord Magistrate manual labour matter ment Minister for Lands mortgage mortgagor notice official assignee opinion Owen owner paid parties payable payment person plaintiff possession question referred rent respondent RICHARD COUCH rule nisi shares shew Sir Julian Salomons Solicitors South Wales Stephen sub-s Supreme Court Sydney tenant testator tion trial trustees ultra vires words
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Page 373 - If, for instance, they were found to be partial and unequal in their operation as between different classes; if they were manifestly unjust, if they disclosed bad faith; if they involved such oppressive or gratuitous interference with the rights of those subject to them as could find no justification in the minds of reasonable men, the Court might well say, 'Parliament never intended to give authority to make such rules; they are unreasonable and ultra vires.
Page 115 - Nothing is more incumbent upon Courts of Justice, than to preserve their proceedings from being misrepresented ; nor is there anything of more pernicious consequence, than to prejudice the minds of the public against persons concerned as parties in causes, before the cause is finally heard . . . There are three different sorts of contempt.
Page 108 - the expression ' workman ' does not include a domestic or menial servant, but save as aforesaid, means any person who, being a labourer, servant in husbandry, journeyman, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour...
Page 373 - But it is in this sense, and in this sense only, as I conceive, that the question of unreasonableness can properly be regarded.
Page 1 - A rule having been obtained calling on the plaintiff to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had...
Page 391 - Now, there is but one case,' in which it appears to us that this sort of evidence of intention can properly be admitted, and that is, where the meaning of the testator's words is neither ambiguous nor obscure, and where the devise is on the face of it perfect and intelligible, but, from some of the circumstances admitted in proof, an ambiguity arises, as to which of the two or more things, or which of the two or more persons (each answering the words in the will), the testator intended to express.
Page 216 - Any contract which if made between private persons would be by law required to be in writing, and signed by the parties to be charged therewith, may be made on behalf of the company in writing signed by any person acting under the express or implied authority of the company...
Page 38 - Justice was right in saying that a retrospective operation ought not to be given to the statute, "unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in clear, plain, and unambiguous language, because it manifestly shocks one's sense of justice that an act legal at the time of doing it should be made unlawful by some new enactment.
Page 64 - ... and then see whether the scheme is a reasonable one, or whether there is any reasonable objection to it or such an objection to it as that any reasonable man might say that he could not approve of it.
Page 190 - And be it further enacted, that 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 shall appear by the will.