Additional errata found in first volume:* 1. For having registered in Art. 408, p. 248, read not having registered. 2. For 15 L. C. J. 300, in reference to Art. 755, p. 102, read 306. 3. For 9 L. C. R. 353, Art. 37, p. 570, read 9 L. C. R. 360. 4. For demanded in Art. 76, p. 904, read amended. 5. For necessary in Art. 150, p. 912, read unnecessary. 6. For admissible, Art. 221, p. 955, read demurrable. 7. For 10 L. C. J., in reference to Art. 888, p. 1038, read 16 L. C. J. * It is recommended that all the errata be entered in their appropriate places in the work. From the First of January, 1877, down to the First of January, 1881, TOGETHER WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF IMPORTANT DECISIONS, PRINCIPALLY OF THE YEARS THE WHOLE ANALYTICALLY DIGESTED AND ARRANGED, WITH CONSTANT REFERENCE TO THE CODES AND STATUTES IN RELATION THERETO, BY CHARLES HENRY STEPHENS, B.C.L., ADVOCATE. MONTREAL: PUBLISHED BY JOHN LOVELL & SON, ENTERED, according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, BY JOHN LOVELL, In the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa. PREFACE. THIS volume is, of course, a continuation of the first. In its preparation, however, I have enjoyed several advantages as compared with the first which only require to be mentioned to be obvious to every one. These are the experience acquired in the preparation of the first; a greater personal familiarity with the cases to be digested; and a body of matter more easily handled. By means of these I have (as I believe) been able to carry out more perfectly the aim of the first volume, namely, to make the work not only a mere index to the reported cases, but to make it a work of reference such as may be to a great extent cited with confidence without further reference to the reports. In digesting a case I have studied to give all of its essentials, all which appears to have influenced the decision as far as could be gathered from the report; to make, in other words, the digested statement a complete epitome of the case in as few words as possible. Besides being a digest of the reported cases for the period mentioned on the title page, this volume will be found also a digest of the principal public statutes of the Province and of the Dominion for the same period. This it is hoped will add very largely to its usefulness. Statutes so short as to run a chance of being overlooked have been reproduced, while others are pointed out under the headings to which they belong, making the volume a digest not only of the jurisprudence, but of the legislation of the years which it represents. In the arrangement of the matter both the system and the nomenclature of the first volume has been strictly adhered to, so that whatever the heading under which a given subject is found in the first volume, the same will be the heading and arrangement under which to find it in the second. Great care has been taken to follow and discover the fate of each decision carried to the higher courts, though, from the absence of all system in reporting, this is sometimes a task of great difficulty, and many decisions are overruled of which no report is ever made. As it seems inevitable that a digest such as is here attempted will become a periodical necessity, it is recommended that the different volumes be made uniform in appearance and numbered on the outside for facility of reference. MONTREAL, August 21st, 1882. C. H. S. |