The Commonwealth Law Reports: Cases Determined in the High Court of Australia, Band 4Law Book Company of Australasia Limited, 1907 |
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... tion ( W.A. ) v . - Smith v . Watson Spicer ; International Paper Co. v . 739 - 362 Stewart v . Stewart Stockwell v . Ryder - 920 - 469 Osborne ( D.M. ) & Co .; Peacock v . 921 Outtrim ; Webb v . - - - 356 Strachan v . The Commonwealth ...
... tion ( W.A. ) v . - Smith v . Watson Spicer ; International Paper Co. v . 739 - 362 Stewart v . Stewart Stockwell v . Ryder - 920 - 469 Osborne ( D.M. ) & Co .; Peacock v . 921 Outtrim ; Webb v . - - - 356 Strachan v . The Commonwealth ...
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... tion ) , Ltd. ( 1903 ) 1 K.B. , 539 645 J JACK . Smail 2 C. L. R. , 684 840 Jackson's Will , In re · 13 Ch . D. , 189 208 · Jacobs v . Smith • 8 N.S.W.L.R. , 21 806 James v . James Jaques v . Stafford . Jay v . Johnstone Jefferies , Ex ...
... tion ) , Ltd. ( 1903 ) 1 K.B. , 539 645 J JACK . Smail 2 C. L. R. , 684 840 Jackson's Will , In re · 13 Ch . D. , 189 208 · Jacobs v . Smith • 8 N.S.W.L.R. , 21 806 James v . James Jaques v . Stafford . Jay v . Johnstone Jefferies , Ex ...
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... tion Act , which that Court had full jurisdic- tion to decide . The decision they pronounced was not a refusal to exercise their jurisdiction , but an actual exercise of jurisdiction , so that mandamus would not lie . By sec . 87 of the ...
... tion Act , which that Court had full jurisdic- tion to decide . The decision they pronounced was not a refusal to exercise their jurisdiction , but an actual exercise of jurisdiction , so that mandamus would not lie . By sec . 87 of the ...
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... tion whether a certain sum fixed in a contract to be paid by the person committing a breach of its provisions is to be treated as a penalty or liquidated damages depends upon whether the sum stipulated for can or cannot be re- garded as ...
... tion whether a certain sum fixed in a contract to be paid by the person committing a breach of its provisions is to be treated as a penalty or liquidated damages depends upon whether the sum stipulated for can or cannot be re- garded as ...
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... TION . Kerridge v . Simmonds 253 COMPULSORY WINDING UP , RIGHT OF CREDI- TORS TO DEMAND . ] - See COMPANY . Great Fingall Associated G. M. Co. v . Harness 223 CONCEALMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS - Equit- able plea - Fraud . ] - See CONTRACT ...
... TION . Kerridge v . Simmonds 253 COMPULSORY WINDING UP , RIGHT OF CREDI- TORS TO DEMAND . ] - See COMPANY . Great Fingall Associated G. M. Co. v . Harness 223 CONCEALMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS - Equit- able plea - Fraud . ] - See CONTRACT ...
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Seite 427 - When the British North America Act enacted that there should be a legislature for Ontario, and that its legislative assembly should have exclusive authority to make laws for the province and for provincial purposes in relation to the matters enumerated in...
Seite 526 - The Indian Legislature has powers expressly limited by the Act of the Imperial Parliament which created it, and it can, of course, do nothing beyond the limits which circumscribe these powers. But, when acting within those limits, it is not in any sense an agent or delegate of the Imperial Parliament, but has, and was intended to have, plenary powers of legislation, as large, and of the same nature, as those of Parliament itself.
Seite 50 - ... if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of Justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract.
Seite 812 - If, for instance, they were found to be partial and unequal in their operation as between different classes ; if they were manifestly unjust ; if they disclosed bad faith ; if they involved such oppressive or gratuitous interference with the rights of those subject to them as could find no justification in the minds of reasonable men, the Court might well say, 'Parliament never intended to give authority to make such rules ; they are unreasonable and ultra vires.
Seite 915 - ... Where the language of a statute, in its ordinary meaning and grammatical construction, leads to a manifest contradiction of the apparent purpose of the enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, „ presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the meaning of the words, and even the structure of the sentence.
Seite 50 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because, if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and compeMcKay v.
Seite 410 - ... nation, and to attain these ends nearly all other considerations are to be subordinated. It matters not in what form such aggression and encroachment come, whether from the foreign nation acting in its national character or from vast hordes of its people crowding in upon us. The government, possessing the powers which are to be exercised for protection and security, is clothed with authority to determine the occasion on which the powers shall be called forth ; and its determination, so far as...
Seite 410 - It is an accepted maxim of international law that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self -preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions, or to admit them only in such cases and upon such conditions as it may see fit to prescribe.
Seite 543 - The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws ; (xxxii) The control of railways with respect to transport for the naval and military purposes of the Commonwealth...
Seite 287 - When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid.