Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme court of New Brunswick [1848-66], Volume 5 |
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Page 5
... opinion that the offence was properly set out in the indictment . Whether it was the intention of the Leg- islature to re - enact in fewer words the offence created by the law as it was previous to the Revised Statutes , viz . by 12 Vic ...
... opinion that the offence was properly set out in the indictment . Whether it was the intention of the Leg- islature to re - enact in fewer words the offence created by the law as it was previous to the Revised Statutes , viz . by 12 Vic ...
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... opinion is , that according to the construction of the Act , the defendant should have applied to the Justices for relief since his arrest on the ca. sa . Application refused . Per Curiam , tion to the Justices since his second arrest ...
... opinion is , that according to the construction of the Act , the defendant should have applied to the Justices for relief since his arrest on the ca. sa . Application refused . Per Curiam , tion to the Justices since his second arrest ...
Page 21
... opinion that the validity of the judgment could not be inquired into at Nisi Prius . In charging the jury , His Honor said , that by the agree- ment under which Fowler and Donelly made the lumber , they became tenants in common of it ...
... opinion that the validity of the judgment could not be inquired into at Nisi Prius . In charging the jury , His Honor said , that by the agree- ment under which Fowler and Donelly made the lumber , they became tenants in common of it ...
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... opinion that this question was properly submitted to the jury , and on this point we should not have ordered a new trial , had the plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict in accord- ance with the direction given to the jury ...
... opinion that this question was properly submitted to the jury , and on this point we should not have ordered a new trial , had the plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict in accord- ance with the direction given to the jury ...
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... opinion of each other ; what was his was hers , and hers was his ; and she frequently said the family was very expensive , and they had but one common purse . When she asked for money during his absence , she used to say she did not ...
... opinion of each other ; what was his was hers , and hers was his ; and she frequently said the family was very expensive , and they had but one common purse . When she asked for money during his absence , she used to say she did not ...
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Page 140 - The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 36 - A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence.
Page 618 - If it were once understood, that upon mutual disgust married persons might be legally separated, many couples, who now pass through the world with mutual comfort, with attention to their common offspring and to the moral order of civil society, might have been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness, in a state of estrangement from their common offspring, and in a state of the most licentious and unreserved immorality. In this case, as in many others, the happiness of some individuals...
Page 140 - ... if whatever a man's real intention may be he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth...
Page 342 - Counsel moved for a nonsuit, on the ground that the plaintiff had not pleaded in bar to, or denied the avowries of the defendants.
Page 612 - After the best consideration that I have been able to give to the subject, I...
Page 417 - Michaelmas term last, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. He...
Page 50 - If there is any misrepresentation, or any concealment of a material fact, or any just suspicion of artifice or undue influence, courts of equity will interpose and pronounce the transaction void, and as far as possible restore the parties to their original rights.
Page 114 - But nothing herein contained shall render any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself...
Page 79 - I think, therefore, that the rule should be discharged, but as the majority of the Court are of a different opinion, it must be made absolute. The judgment of Quain, J., and Archi" 1, J., was delivered by — ARCHIBALD, J.