Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Volume 11Nova Scotia. Supreme Court, James Thomson, Alexander James (Reporter), Fitzgerald Cochran, Henry Oldright (Reporter), John Morris Geldert (Reporter), James Macdonald Oxley (Reporter), Benjamin Russell, Samuel Ainsley Chesley, Frank W. Russell (Reporter), William Bernard Wallace, LaMert S. Whinyard Carswell Company, Limited, 1879 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 36 - fide upon any subject matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contains criminatory matter which without this privilege would be slanderous and actionable. Here the words of Lord Campbell, used in that case, are
Page 331 - commenced " or " instituted." In the sentence in which it occurs, it relates to the antecedent words " any suit, action, or other proceeding in any Court of Justice, or before any person having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence." We may speculate, and we may think it
Page 251 - Series, like the English Act, provides, " That no action, shall be brought,'' among other cases given, " upon, any agreement that is not to •" be performed within the space
Page 128 - debate be the undoubted privilege of the House, yet whatsoever is spoken in the House is subject to the censure of the House." It would be a great mistake to suppose that the word
Page 331 - in any Court of Justice, or before any person having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence.
Page 284 - turn round and tell the vendee that the character he himself has " allowed the factor to assume did not really belong to him. The " purchaser may have bought for the express purpose of setting "off the price of the goods against a debt due to him from the " seller.
Page 479 - in his History of England (II.-428), says, that James II., when he fled from the Kingdom he had outraged, took the Great Seal in his hand and, as he passed Lambeth,flung it into the midst of the stream, whence, after many months, it was accidentally caught by a fishing net and dragged up. By this
Page 176 - that the advance of money to a firm upon a contract that the lender shall receive a rate of interest varying with the profits, or
Page 13 - peace, health, and morals, said: " As subjects of legislation they are, from their very nature, of primary importance ; they lie at the foundation of social existence. They are for the protection of life and liberty, and necessarily compel all laws on subjects of secondary importance which relate to property, convenience or luxury, to recede when they
Page 474 - 2 Exch., 22, is one of such obvious convenience and justice that it must always be adhered to in the construction of statutes, unless in cases where there is something on the face of the enactment putting it beyond doubt that the Legislature meant it to operate retrospectively.