The Montreal Law Reports: Court of Queen's Bench

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Gazette Printing Company, 1885
 

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Page 153 - The states have no power by taxation, or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operation of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress, to carry into effect the powers vested in the national government.
Page 173 - A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another : such as the excise or customs.
Page 134 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Canada...
Page 134 - Direct Taxation within the Province in order to the , raising of a Revenue for Provincial Purposes.
Page 204 - Les fonds inférieurs sont assujettis envers ceux qui sont plus élevés, à recevoir les eaux qui en découlent naturellement sans que la main de l'homme y ait contribué. Le propriétaire inférieur ne peut point élever de digue qui empêche cet écoulement. Le propriétaire supérieur ne peut rien faire qui aggrave la servitude du fonds inférieur.
Page 169 - In performing this difficult duty, it will be a wise course for those on whom it is thrown to decide each case which arises as best they can, without entering more largely upon an interpretation of the statute than is necessary for the decision of the particular question in hand.
Page 382 - De son côté, celui qui a un droit de servitude ne peut en user que suivant son titre, sans pouvoir faire, ni dans le fonds qui doit la servitude, ni dans le fonds à qui elle est due, de changement qui aggrave la condition du premier.
Page 163 - L'infliction de punitions par voie d'amende, pénalité ou emprisonnement, dans le but de faire exécuter toute loi de la province décrétée au sujet des matières tombant dans aucune des catégories de sujets énumérés dans cette section ; 16. Généralement toutes les matières d'une nature purement locale ou privée dans la province.
Page 189 - And any Matter coming within any of the Classes of Subjects enumerated in this Section shall not be deemed to come within the Class of Matters of a local or private Nature comprised in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislature of the Provinces.
Page 134 - Shop, Saloon, Tavern, Auctioneer, and other Licenses in order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial, Local, or Municipal Purposes.

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