Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court, Court of Chancery and Court of Vice Admiralty of Prince Edward Island: From Hilary Term, 1850 to Hilary Term, 1872, صفحة 10James Horsfield Peters, Prince Edward Island. Vice Admiralty Court, Prince Edward Island. Supreme Court J.H. Fletcher, 1872 - 255 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 43 - the rule of law is clear, that, where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter, a different state of things, as existing at the same time.
الصفحة 8 - All that the law requires of the party by or over whose land a stream passes, is, that he should use the water in a reasonable manner, and so as not to destroy, or render useless, or materially diminish or affect the application of the water by the proprietors above or below on the stream.
الصفحة 27 - Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence ; where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore, from the beginning of this Jurisdiction, there was always a limitation to suits In this court.
الصفحة 79 - ... interest in possession granted, appointed, or otherwise assured by any instrument (other than a will) to him, or some person through whom he claims, by a person being in respect of the same estate or interest in the possession or receipt of the profits of the land, or in the receipt of the rent...
الصفحة 213 - Where by an Act passed in the first year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, ' An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills...
الصفحة 115 - Streams of water are intended for the use and comfort of man; and it would be unreasonable and contrary to the universal sense of mankind to debar every riparian proprietor from the application of the water to domestic, agricultural and manufacturing purposes...
الصفحة 225 - And in order that the above provisions as to forfeitures may be carried into effect, it shall be lawful for any commissioned officer on full pay in the military or naval service of Her Majesty, or any British officer of customs, or any British consular officer, to...
الصفحة 78 - ... such possession or receipt then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which the person claiming as aforesaid or the person through whom he claims became entitled to such possession or receipt by virtue of such instrument.
الصفحة 116 - ... of the common right. The diminution, " retardation, or acceleration, not positively and sen"sibly injurious, by diminishing the value of the " common right, is an implied element in the right of
الصفحة 114 - ... solebat), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct...