The Consolidated Ordinances of the Northwest Territories, 1898: Being a Consolidation of the Revised Ordinances of the Territories, 1888, with the Subsequent Public General Ordinances of the Legislature of the North-west Territories. In Force March 15, 1899

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J. A. Reid, 1899 - 1125 pages

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CHAPTER PAGE 10 An Ordinance respecting the Treasury Department and the Auditing of the Public Accounts
103
An Ordinance respecting Public Printing
119
An Ordinance respecting Inquiries concerning Public Matters
120
An Ordinance respecting Security to be given by Public Officers
121
An Ordinance respecting the Registration of Births Mar riages and Deaths
129
An Ordinance respecting the Expropriation of Lands
138
An Ordinance to make Regulations with respect to Coal Mines
143
An Ordinance respecting the Inspection of Steam Boilers and the Examination of Engineers operating the same
163
An Ordinance respecting Ferries
170
An Ordinance respecting Public Health
174
An Ordinance to regulate Public Aid to Hospitals
184
Title III
187
An Ordinance respecting Clerks and Deputy Clerks
322
An Ordinance respecting Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs
329
An Ordinance respecting Commissioners to Administer Oaths
336
An Ordinance respecting Notaries Public
337
An Ordinance to abolish Priority among Execution Creditors
338
An Ordinance exempting certain Property from Seizure and Sale under Execution
345
An Ordinance respecting Juries
347
An Ordinance respecting Alimony
352
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Slander
353
An Ordinance respecting Limitation of Actions in Certain Cases
354
An Ordinance respecting Justices of the Peace
355
An Ordinance respecting Constables
360
An Ordinance respecting Distress for Rent and Extrajudi cial Seizure
361
An Ordinance respecting Arbitration
363
An Ordinance respecting the Investigation of Accidents by Fire
367
Relating to Real Property
368
An Ordinance respecting Factors and Agents
390

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Page 15 - It shall be signed at the foot or end thereof, by the testator or by some other person in his presence, and by his direction, and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator, in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator and of each other but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 375 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 392 - ... agent acting for him, of the goods or documents of title, under any sale, pledge or other disposition thereof...
Page 380 - Act, where goods are sold by a person who is not the owner thereof, and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner, the buyer acquires no better title to the goods than the seller had, unless the owner of the goods is by his conduct precluded from denying the seller's authority to sell. (2) Nothing in this Act, however, shall affect (a) The provisions of any factors...
Page 383 - The buyer is deemed to have accepted the goods when he intimates to the seller that he has accepted them, or when the goods have been delivered to him, and he does any act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller, or when, after the lapse of a reasonable time he retains the goods without intimating to the seller that he has rejected them.
Page 383 - Where goods are delivered to the buyer, which he has not previously examined, he is not deemed to have accepted them unless and until he has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are in conformity with the contract.
Page 386 - The unpaid seller may exercise his right of stoppage in transitu either by taking actual possession of the goods, or by giving notice of his claim to the carrier or other bailee in whose possession the goods are. Such notice may be given either to the person in actual possession of the goods or to his principal.
Page 288 - ... unless in the opinion of the Court to which the application is made some substantial wrong or miscarriage has been thereby occasioned in the trial...
Page 202 - All persons may be joined as defendants against whom the right to any relief is alleged to exist, whether jointly, severally or in the alternative; and judgment may be given against such one or more of the defendants as may be found to be liable according to their respective liabilities, without any amendment.
Page 381 - Whether it is for the buyer to take possession of the goods or for the seller to send them to the buyer is a question depending in each case on the contract, express or implied, between the parties. Apart from any such contract, express or implied, or usage of trade to the contrary, the place of delivery...

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