Sessional Papers, Volum 40,Del 3

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The Legislature, 1908
 

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Side 242 - The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is therefore perceived why it may not pass as incidental to those powers which are expressly given, if it be a direct mode of executing them.
Side 251 - Incorporation has done is to create a legal and artificial person with capacity to carry on certain kinds of business, which are defined, within a defined area viz, throughout the Dominion. Among other things, it has given to the Association power to deal in land and buildings, but the capacity so given only enables it to acquire and hold land in any province consistently with the laws of that province relating to the acquisition and tenure of land. If the company can so acquire and hold it, the...
Side 242 - It is never the end for which other powers are exercised, but a means by which other objects are accomplished. No contributions are made to charity for the sake of an incorporation, but a corporation is created to administer the charity. No seminary of learning is instituted in order to be incorporated, but the corporate character is conferred to subserve the purposes of education. No city was ever built with the sole object of being incorporated, but is incorporated as affording the best means of...
Side 241 - The power of creating a corporation, though appertaining to sovereignty, is not, like the power of making war, or levying taxes, or of regulating commerce, a great substantive and independent power, which cannot be implied as incidental to other powers, or used as a means of executing them. It is never the end for which other powers are exercised, but a means by which other objects are accomplished.
Side 225 - against loss or damage caused by locomotives to property located in the State of Maine, not including that of the assured." By a statute in that state the railway company is made liable for injury so caused and is given an insurable interest in property along its line for which it is so responsible. Held, affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeal (11 Ont. LR 465) which maintained the verdict at the trial (9 Ont. LR...
Side 242 - ... authority as plenary and as ample . . . as the Imperial Parliament in the plenitude of its power possessed and could bestow...
Side 241 - The creation of a corporation, it is said, appertains to sovereignty. This is admitted. But to what portion of sovereignty does it appertain ? Does it belong to one more than to another ? In America, the powers of sovereignty are divided between the government of the Union and those of the States. They are each sovereign, with respect to the objects committed to it, and neither sovereign with respect to the objects committed to the other.
Side 99 - In accordance with the provisions of the Companies' Act, 1900, we certify that all our requirements as Auditors have been complied with.
Side 226 - Maine, the policy stating the insurance1 to be "against loss or damage by fire on property as follows : On all claims for loss or damage caused by locomotives to property located in the State of Maine, not including that of the assured.
Side 258 - Any person convicted under this Act who gives notice of appeal against the decision of the convicting Justice, shall be required before being released from custody to give to the Justice satisfactory security for the amount of the penalty, costs of conviction, and appeal, and the appeal shall be to a Divisional Court of the High Court.

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