Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia ..., Volumen27Carswell Company, Limited, 1896 |
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Página 365 - A married woman shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing by will or otherwise, of any real or personal property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without the intervention of any trustee.
Página 141 - Where it would be practically unjust to give a remedy, either because the party has, by his conduct, done that which might fairly be regarded as equivalent to a waiver of it, or where by his conduct and...
Página 215 - Viet. c. 109, which enacts that " all contracts and agreements by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void, and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event upon which any wager shall have been made...
Página 378 - Deponent, at the (Toivnship, &c., aforesaid, by (some person or persons unknown, or name the person,) and that he hath Just and reasonable cause to suspect, and doth suspect that the said goods and chattels, or some part of them, are concealed in the (Dwelling House...
Página 260 - ... therefore the purchaser shall not have the benefit of his contract. For the purpose of this jurisdiction, the person contracting under...
Página 176 - Council may, by letters patent under the great seal, grant a charter to any number of persons, not less than five, who shall petition therefor, constituting such persons, and others who may become shareholders in the Company thereby created...
Página 358 - A married woman shall be capable of entering into and rendering herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract, and of suing and being sued, either in contract or in tort, or otherwise, in all respects as if she were a feme sole...
Página 141 - ... cases lapse of time and delay are most material. But in every case if an argument against relief which otherwise would be just, is founded upon mere delay, that delay of course not amounting to a bar by any Statute of Limitations, the validity of that defence must be tried upon principles substantially equitable.
Página 141 - ... must be tried upon principles substantially equitable. Two circumstances always important in such cases are the length of the delay and the nature of the acts done during the interval, which might affect either party and cause a balance of justice or injustice in taking the one course or the other, so far as relates to the remedy.
Página 378 - House, $c., of the said, <J«.] and there diligently search for the said goods and chattels, and if the same or any part thereof shall be found upon such search, that you bring the goods so found, and also the body of the said...