Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated, Volume 36

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Canada Law Journal Company, 1922
 

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Page 87 - No lands or property belonging to Canada or any province shall be liable to taxation.
Page 89 - The management and sale of the public lands belonging to the Province and of the timber and wood thereon.
Page 239 - ... no person accused of any offence under this subsection shall be convicted upon the evidence of one witness, unless such witness is corroborated in some material particular by evidence implicating the accused.
Page 88 - Within these limits of subjects and area the local legislature is supreme, and has the same authority as the Imperial Parliament, or the Parliament of the Dominion, would have had under like circumstances to confide to a municipal institution or body of its own creation authority to make by-laws or resolutions as to subjects specified in the enactment, and with the object of carrying the enactment into operation and effect.
Page 133 - 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 71 - At common law an honest and reasonable belief in the existence of circumstances, which, if true, would make the act for which a prisoner is indicted an innocent act has always been held to be a good defence. This doctrine is embodied in the somewhat uncouth maxim 'actus nonfacit reum, nisi mens sit rea'.
Page 247 - No conviction or order made by any justice, and no warrant for enforcing the same, shall, on being removed by certiorari, be held invalid for any irregularity, informality or insufficiency therein, if the court or judge before which or whom the question is raised, upon perusal of the depositions, is satisfied that an offence of the nature ,described in the conviction, order or warrant, has been committed, over which such justice has jurisdiction...
Page 133 - 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.
Page 270 - The Legislature has enacted that if anyone does this wrong act he does it at the risk of her turning out to be under sixteen. This opinion gives full scope to the doctrine of the mens rea. If the taker believed he had the father's consent, though wrongly, he would have no mens rea. So if he did not know she was in anyone's possession, nor in the care or charge of anyone. In those cases he would not know he was doing the act forbidden by the statute...
Page 212 - It has long been established as a positive rule of English criminal law, that no statement by an accused is admissible in evidence against him unless it is shown by the prosecution to have been a voluntary statement, in the sense that it has not been obtained from him either by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority.

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