Results: 88

• Brown (J & A) v Turner, Brightman & Co

  30 Oct 1911 [1912] AC 12, HL

  CHARTERPARTY — Construction — Time Charter
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  CHARTERPARTY — Construction — Time Charter — Payment of Hire — Exemption Clause — Strike.

• The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co v The Landowners On Streets In Fort William, Fort William Land Investment Co

  02 Nov 1911 [1912] AC 224, PC

  CANADA — Dominion railway act, 1906, ss. 47, 159, 237 (3.) — Rower of Board of Railway Commissioners
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  CANADA — Dominion railway act, 1906, ss. 47, 159, 237 (3.) — Rower of Board of Railway Commissioners — Construction — Condition as to Compensation ultra vires — Order approving Location of Railway rescinded.

  1 Statute considered

• The King v Alberta Railway and Irrigation Co

  25 Jul 1912 [1912] AC 827, PC

  CANADA — Dominion lands act (r. s. c., 1886, c. 54) — Road Allowances
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  CANADA — Dominion lands act (r. s. c., 1886, c. 54) — Road Allowances — North-West Irrigation Act, 1898 — Authority to intersect Road Allowances with Canals — Obligation to build Bridges at Points of Intersection.

  2 Statutes considered

• Angus Corinthe v Ecclesiastics Of The Seminary Of St Sulpice Of Montreal

  19 Jul 1912 [1912] AC 872, PC

  LAND — Canadian act 3 & 4 vict. c. 30 — Construction
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  LAND — Canadian act 3 & 4 vict. c. 30 — Construction — Title to a Seigniory — Claim of Appellants to a Trust in their Favour.

  1 Statute considered

• Owners Of Ship Swansea Vale v Jessie Mary Rice and Millicent Rice (An Infant)

  05 May 1911 [1912] AC 238, HL

  EMPLOYMENT — Employer and workman — Compensation
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  EMPLOYMENT — Employer and workman — Compensation — Accident arising out of and in the Course of Employment — Seaman on Duty on Watch — Unexplained Disappearance — Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 58), s. 1, sub-s. 1.

  1 Statute considered

• In The Matter Of Moses Amado Taylor

  26 Jan 1912 [1912] AC 347, PC

  PRACTICE — Removal of a Barrister's Name from the Court Rolls rescinded — Irregularities without Evidence of Fraud.
  LORD ROBSON. The appellant Moses Amado Taylor is a native of Freetown, in the Colony of Sierra Leone, and a barrister of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, where he was called to the Bar in June, 1907. He was afterwards enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the said Colony, and he now appeals from three orders of that Court. By the first of those orders, dated September 3, 1908, he was fined 100l. and costs for an alleged contempt of Court; by the second, dated May 7, 1909, he was fined 20l. in respect
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  PRACTICE — Removal of a Barrister's Name from the Court Rolls rescinded — Irregularities without Evidence of Fraud.

• Scottish Widows’ Fund Life Assurance Society v Blennerhassett

  17 Jan 1912 [1912] AC 281, HL

  PRACTICE — House of Lords — Appeal
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  PRACTICE — House of Lords — Appeal — Competency — Land Purchase — Distribution of Purchase-money — Order of Land Commission — Irish Land Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 37), s. 24, sub-s. 13.

  1 Statute considered
• Dunne v Byrne

  22 Feb 1912 [1912] AC 407, PC

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  WILL — Construction — Charitable bequest
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  WILL — Construction — Charitable bequest — Fund to be expended for the Good of Religion — Religious Purposes.

• Salford Corpn v Eccles Corpn

  29 Mar 1912 [1912] AC 465, HL

  RAILWAY — Tramway — Statutory Powers
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  RAILWAY — Tramway — Statutory Powers — Ultra vires — Adjacent Districts — Working Agreement — Licence to Work — Consent of Board of Trade — Eccles Corporation, Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. cxxii.), ss. 3, 24 — Salford Corporation Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c.

  3 Statutes considered

• Richard J Kirby v John J Cowderoy

  18 Jun 1912 [1912] AC 599, PC

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  POSSESSION — Possession of land by mortgagee — Payment of Taxes a sufficient Act of Possession under the Circumstances.
  LORD SHAW OF DUNFERMLINE. This action was commenced on April 8, 1910, by a writ of summons in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, by the respondent, who is the plaintiff, against the appellant, the defendant. The action is for the redemption of certain land situated in the district of New Westminster. On January 26, 1911, Hunter C.J. dismissed the action with costs. On June 6 thereafter the Court of Appeal of British Columbia reversed that dismissal. The present appeal has accordingly been brought. The real and only point of the case is as to the application of the British
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  POSSESSION — Possession of land by mortgagee — Payment of Taxes a sufficient Act of Possession under the Circumstances.