The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 15

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Clark Bell
Medico-Legal Journal Association, 1897 - Law

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Page 90 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 477 - Any person, agent, or officer of any association or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each day each car belonging to and used by any such person, association or corporation is...
Page 14 - Act, no appeal shall be brought in any criminal case from any judgment or order of any court in Canada to any court of appeal or authority, by which in the United Kingdom appeals or petitions to His Majesty in Council may be heard.
Page 242 - The right of action now existing to recover damages for injuries resulting in death, shall never be abrogated; and the amount recoverable shall not be subject to any statutory limitation.
Page 472 - SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Page 145 - We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time — of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances — of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remembered it ! I never had this mysterious impression more strongly in my life, than before he uttered those words.
Page 222 - Heredity is that biological law by which all beings endowed with life tend to repeat themselves in their descendants : it is for the species what personal identity is for the individual.
Page 13 - The order or direction of the Court of Appeal shall be certified under the hand of the presiding chief justice or senior puisne judge to the proper officer of the court before which the case was tried, and such order or direction shall be carried into effect.
Page 99 - If, by reason of the duress of such mental disease, he had so far lost the power to choose between the right and wrong, and to avoid doing the act in question, as that his free agency was at the time destroyed.
Page 23 - ... and upon the appeal, any actual decision of the court in an intermediate order or proceeding forming a part of the...

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