State Reports Queensland, Volume 2

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Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland., 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

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Page 176 - any person who shall use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour in any public street, thoroughfare, or place, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned,
Page 174 - any person who shall use any threatening abusive or insulting words or behaviour in any public street thoroughfare or place with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned shall forfeit and pay on conviction in a summary way by any justice of the peace any sum not exceeding five
Page 231 - the rule for jurisdiction is that nothing shall be intended to be out of the jurisdiction of a superior court but that which specially appears to be so; and, on the contrary, nothing shall be intended to be within the jurisdiction of an inferior court but that which is so
Page 127 - that if any trader liable to become bankrupt shall . . make or cause to be made . . . any fraudulent grant or conveyance of any of his lands tenements goods or chattels .... or make or cause to be made any fraudulent gift delivery or transfer of any of his goods or chattels every such .... trader
Page 122 - There is a presumption that mens rea, an evil intention, or a knowledge of the wrongfulness of the act, is an essential ingredient in every offence; but that presumption is liable to be displaced either by the words of the statute creating the offence or
Page 256 - grant bounties on the production or export of goods shall become exclusive. On the imposition of uniform duties of customs, all laws of the several States imposing duties of customs or of excise or offering bounties on the production or export of
Page 262 - relating to any matter within the powers of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, shall, subject to this Constitution, continue in force in the State ; and. until provision is made in that behalf by the Parliament of the Commonwealth, the Parliament of the State shall have
Page 180 - order give such directions and make such provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company had never been struck off.
Page 180 - so to do, may order the name of the company to be restored to the register, and thereupon the company shall be deemed to have continued in existence as if the name thereof had never been
Page 256 - States. Section 99: The Commonwealth shall not, by any law or regulation of trade, commerce, or revenue, give preference to one State or any part thereof over another State or any part thereof.

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