deputy, in so far as they are compatible with the charge of the latter. 19. When an act is to be performed by more than two persons, it may be validly done by the majority of them, except in the cases otherwise specially provided. 20. The pound sterling is equivalent to the sum of four dollars eighty-six cents and two-thirds, or one pound four shillings and four pence currency. The Sovereign is of like value. 21. The words" inhabitant of Clause 3 of paragraph 14 Lower Canada," or "inhabitant of the schedule to article 17 is of the Province of Quebec," | replaced by the following: mean a person having his domicile in the Province of Quebec 22. The terms "acts of civil status mean the entries made¦ in the registers kept according to law, to establish births, mar BOOK 3. The festival of the Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Ascension, All Saints' Day, Conception and Christmas Day." -- Vict., 183 ch.38, 3, 1. FIRST. the father's side is a British sub- | naturalized subjects.-C. N. 11; ject, although he be himself C. C. 609 born in a foreign country; sav ing the exceptions resulting from special laws of the empire. -C. N. 10. 26. Aliens cannot serve as jurors. -R. S. Q. 5776, 6229; R. S. C. c. 174. 27. Aliens, although not 21. An alien becomes a Brit-resident in Lower Canada, may ish subject by operation of law, be sued in its courts for the by conforming to the conditions fulfilment of obligations conthe law prescribes. C. N. 9. tracted by them even in foreign countries. 22. These conditions, in so far as they are prescribed by the laws of the Dominion, are: 1. Residence in Canada during three years at least, or service during at least three years under the Government of Canada, or under the Government of one of the Provinces of Canada, with the intention when naturalized to either reside in Canada, or to serve under the Government of the Dominion, or under the Government of one of the Provinces of Canada; 2. Taking the oath of residence or of service and that of allegiance required by law; 3. Procuring from the proper court, with the necessary formalities, the certificate of naturalization required by law. -R. S. Q. 6228; R. S. C. c. 113. 23. An alien woman is naturalized by the mere fact of the marriage she contracts with a British subject.-C. N. 12, 19. 24. Naturalization confers in Lower Canada, on him by whom it is obtained, all the rights and privileges he would have if born a British subject.-C. N. 13. 25. Aliens have a right to acquire and transmit by gratuitous or onerous title, as well as by succession or by will, all moveable and immoveable property in Lower Canada, in the same manner as British-born or 28. Any inhabitant of Lower Canada may be sued in its courts for the fulfilment of obligations contracted in foreign countries even in favor of a foreigner. 29. Repealed by 60 Vir. (1897), Cap. 50, sec. 2. Vide C. C. P. art. 179. CHAPTER SECOND. OF THE LOSS OF CIVIL RIGHTS 30. Civil rights are lost : 1. In the cases which are provided for by the laws of the British Empire. 2. By civil death. SECTION I. Of Civil Death. 31. Civil death results from condemnation to certain corporal punishments.--C. N. 22.1 32. Condemnation to death carries with it civil death. -C. N. 23. 33. Civil death also results from the condemnation to any other corporal punishment for life. 34. The disabilities which result as regards persons professing the Catholic religion, from religious profession by solemu 1 Vide Criminal Code, s. 965, as to Civil Death. 5. He cannot be a party to a suit, either as plaintiff or defendant. and perpetual vows made by | evidence in a court of justice or them in a religious community to serve as a juror. recognized at the time of the cession of Canada to England and subsequently approved, remain subject to the laws by which they were governed at that period.--C. C. 70 et s. SECTION II. Of the Effects of Civil Death. 35. Civil death carries with it the loss of all the property of the party attainted, which is confiscated to the crown. -C.N. 25, 36. A person civilly dead: 1. Cannot take or transmit by succession.-C. N. 25. 6. He is incapable of contracting a marriage that will produce any civil effect. 7. Marriage previously contracted by him is dissolved for the future, in so far as regards its civil effects only; the mar riage tie subsists. 8. His consort and his heirs may respectively exercise the rights and actions to which natural death would give rise; saving rights to survivorship, to which civil death only gives rise when that effect results from the terms of the marriage contract.-C. C. 284, 479, 608, 835, 844, 986, 1208, 1295, 1310, 1350, 1403, 1438; C. C. P. 78, 314. 37. Civil death is incurred from the time of the sentence. 2. He can neither dispose of nor acquire property, whether inter vivos or by will, and whether by gratuitous or onerous title; he can neither con--C.N. 26. tract. nor possess property, but he may receive maintenance. -C. N. 25. 3. He can neither be appointed tutor nor curator, nor take part in the proceedings relative to such appointment. 4. He cannot be a witness to any solemn or authentic deed, nor can he be admitted to give 38. Pardon, liberation, and the remission of the penalty or its commutation to another which does not carry with it civil death, restore the civil ability of the person condemned, but without any retroactive effect, unless such effect be specially granted by Act of Parliament. |