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Page 247 - The imposition of punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment for enforcing any law of the province made in relation to any matter coming within any of the classes of subjects enumerated in this section: 16.
Page 321 - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page 335 - All Lands, Mines, Minerals, and Royalties belonging to the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick at the Union, and all sums then due or payable for such Lands, Mines, Minerals, or Royalties, shall belong to the several Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in which the same are situate or arise, subject to any Trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any Interest other than that of the Province in the same.
Page 133 - It shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to adopt or pass any vote, resolution, address or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue, or of any tax or impost, to any purpose that has not been first recommended to that House by message of the Governor-General in the session in which such vote, resolution, address or bill is proposed.
Page 161 - Local Works and Undertakings other than such as are of the following Classes: — a) Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the Limits of the Province...
Page 326 - The Parliament of Canada may, notwithstanding anything in this Act, from Time to Time, provide for the Constitution, Maintenance and Organization of a General Court of Appeal for Canada, and for the establishment of any additional Courts for the better Administration of the Laws of Canada.
Page 367 - Canada ; and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Parliament of Canada, from the date aforesaid, to make, ordain and establish within the land and territory so admitted as aforesaid, all such laws, institutions and ordinances, and to constitute such courts and officers, as may be necessary for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein...
Page 120 - Questions arising in the legislative council of Quebec, shall be decided by a majority of voices, and the speaker shall, in all cases, have a vote, and when the voices are equal the decision shall be deemed to be in the negative.
Page 167 - Parliament authority to make laws for the good government of Canada in all matters not coming within the classes of subjects assigned exclusively to the Provincial Legislature.
Page 410 - Time to appoint any Person or any Persons jointly or severally to be his Deputy or Deputies within any Part or Parts of...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Law of the Canadian Constitution HeinOnline: World constitutions illustrated Making of modern law: Foreign, comparative and international law, 1600-1926 |
| Author | William Henry Pope Clement |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Carswell Company, limited, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Dec 5, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0722268521, 9780722268520 |
| Length | 450 pages |
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