The Legal News, Volume 16James Kirby R. White, 1893 - Law |
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Page 270 - If the determination of the foregoing questions as to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall leave the subject in such position that the concurrence of Great Britain is necessary to the establishment of regulations...
Page 232 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces...
Page 249 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in jEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.
Page 233 - 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...
Page 272 - Governments shall take measures to control the fitness of the men authorized to engage in fur-seal fishing; these men shall have been proved fit to handle with sufficient skill the weapons by means of which this fishing may be carried on.
Page 267 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 271 - Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property in the fur-seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Behring Sea when such seals are found outside the ordinary threemile limit?
Page 273 - ... by the Indians, provided such Indians are not in the employment of other persons and provided that, when so hunting in canoes or undecked boats, they shall not hunt fur seals outside of territorial waters under contract for the delivery of the skins to any person.
Page 240 - In our opinion such a construction of the constitueion leads to the conclusion that no state has the right to lay a tax on interstate commerce in any form. whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, and the reason is that such taxation is a burden on that commerce and amounts to a regulation of it, which belongs solely to Congress.
Page 382 - But no person shall hold the office of justice or judge of any court longer than until and including the last day of December next, after he shall be seventy years of age.