PREFACE.

The

present volume contains the reported cases in the Privy Council, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Courts of the Province of Ontario in continuation of those previously published.

The method of arrangement adopted in the former volumes has been retained.

The head notes with a few exceptions have been revised or re written. Where any part of a judgment is omitted the omission is marked by otherwise, the matters omitted being such only as do not relate to the constitutional points. Square brackets thus [ ] show that the words placed within them are introduced by the editor.

asterisks or

The numbers inserted in the margin refer to the pages of the original reports.

All quotations and references have as far as possible been verified and corrected.

April, 1892.