| Ontario - Law - 1818 - 600 pages
...the Government of the Province oí Quebec, in North America," it was, among other things, provided, " That in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort should be had to the Laws of Canada as the rule for the decision of the same ;'r such Provision being... | |
| Ontario - 1822 - 874 pages
...their allegiance to his Majesty, and subjection to the crown and parliament of Great Britain ; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property...resort shall be had to the. laws of Canada, as the rale for the decision of the same ; and all causes that shall hereafter be instituted in any of the... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - Gibraltar - 1834 - 656 pages
...a few local structures: — By this Act the English criminal law was preserved ; but it was enacted that ' in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights resort should be had to the rule and decision of the laws of Canada' — excepting however in this concession... | |
| Charles Clark - Constitutional law - 1834 - 768 pages
...of the British dominions. By this act the English criminal law was preserved. But it was enacted " that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort should be had to the laws of Canada for the rule and decision of the same, and all causes that should... | |
| George Okill Stuart - Admiralty - 1834 - 652 pages
...soccage, cannot be so affected. The statute of 1774, (the Quebec act,) directs, as a general principle, that " in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, recourse shall be had to the laws of Canada, as the rule for the decision of the same ;" but by the... | |
| William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 876 pages
...their provincial legislature, is expressly secured to them by a British statute, (a) It was enacted, that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort is to be had to the laws of Canada, as the rule for the decision of the same ; and that all causes... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...had become habituated, and were unprepared to change, the general law of Canada. This act enacted, that, ' in ' all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, ' resort should be had to the laws of Canada, as the rule, for the '. decision of the same.' Provided always,... | |
| Gilbert Ainslie Young - Canada - 1839 - 96 pages
...travaux ? " — Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Colonie» Europe'enes dans les deux Indes. destined, it may be, to accumulate more painful evidence...matters of controversy, relative to property and civil riyhts, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada, as the rule of the decision of the same; and all... | |
| Parliament commons, proc - 1839 - 328 pages
..." all his Majesty's Canadian subjects shall hold and enjoy their property and possessions, &c.; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property...rights, resort shall be had to the laws of Canada," I see I was rather mistaken, and am willing to correct myself. It is not the custom of Paris that is... | |
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