Civil Code of Lower Canada: With the Amendments Effected by Imperial, Federal and Provincial Legislation and All Reported Cases from the Earliest Reports Up to 1st October 1888, Volume 1

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Page xxii - Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
Page 191 - By the general law applicable to running streams, every riparian proprietor has a right to what may be called the ordinary use of the water flowing past his land ; for instance, to the reasonable use of the water for his domestic purposes and for his cattle, and this without regard to the effect which such use may have, in case of a deficiency, upon proprietors lower down the stream.
Page 437 - He is responsible not only for the damage caused by his own fault, but also for that caused by the fault of persons under his control and by things which he has under his care...
Page 527 - No indorsement or memorandum of any payment upon a promissory note, bill of exchange or other writing, made by or on behalf of the party to whom such payment is made, is...
Page 514 - A copy of an entry in a banker's book shall not be received in evidence under this Act unless it be first proved that the book was at the time of the making of the entry one of the ordinary books of the bank, and...
Page 654 - If a thing lost or stolen be bought in good faith in a fair or market, or at a public sale, or from a trader dealing in similar articles, the owner cannot reclaim it, without reimbursing to the purchaser the price he has paid for it.
Page xix - TICTORU, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c., &c.
Page 443 - In all cases where the person injured by the commission of an offence or a quasi-offence dies in consequence, without having obtained indemnity or satisfaction, his consort and his ascendant and descendant relations have a right, but only within a year after his death, to recover from the person who committed the offence or quasi-offence, or his representatives, all damages occasioned by such death.
Page 237 - Ascendants inherit, to the exclusion of all others, property given by them to their children or other descendants who die without issue, where the objects given are still in kind in the succession, and if they have been alienated, the price, if still due, accrues to such ascendants. They also inherit the right which the donee may have had of resuming the property thus given.
Page 729 - The separation renders the wife capable of suing and being sued, and of contracting alone, for all that relates to the administration of her property ; but for all acts and suits tending to alienate her immoveable property, she requires the authorization [of a judge.] •211.

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