Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Volume 3Society of Comparative Legislation, 1899 - Comparative law Includes annual "Review of legislation" covering the years 1859-1949. |
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Page 466 - Stephen) a new sub-section, which declares that " whoever by words either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representation or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards her Majesty or the government established by law...
Page 491 - If the Court is of opinion that the terms of the composition or scheme are not reasonable, or are not calculated to benefit the general body of creditors...
Page 443 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 460 - A person charged and called as a witness in pursuance of this Act shall not be asked, and if asked shall not be required to answer, any question tending to show that he has committed or been convicted of or been charged with any offence other than that wherewith he is then charged...
Page 538 - It shall not be lawful for any person on the Lord's Day, except as provided herein or in any Provincial Act or law now or hereafter in force, to sell or offer for sale or purchase any goods, chattels, or other personal property, or any real estate, or to carry on or transact any business of his ordinary calling, or in connection with such calling, or for gain to do, or employ any other person to do, on that day any work, business, or labour.
Page 466 - State by law established, or to point out, in order to their removal, matters which are producing, or have a tendency to produce, feelings of hatred and ill-will between classes of Her Majesty's subjects, is not a seditious intention.
Page 347 - Her Majesty will not review or interfere with the course of criminal proceedings, unless it is shown that, by a disregard of the forms of legal process, or by some violation of the principles of natural justice, or otherwise, substantial and grave injustice has been done...
Page 390 - God in his heart, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 488 - A male person who lives with or is habitually in the company of a prostitute and has no visible means of support, shall be deemed to be living on the earnings of prostitution.
Page 518 - ... to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.