The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland, Volume 26W. Hodge & Company, 1910 - Law |
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Page 108 - ... earned by a person in the same grade employed at the same work by the same employer, or, if there is no person so employed, by a person -in the same grade employed in the same class of employment and in the same district...
Page 365 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 89 - An action against a trade union, whether of workmen or masters, or against any members or officials thereof on behalf of themselves and all other members of the trade union in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the trade union, shall not be entertained by any court.
Page 91 - Scotland, or are of such a character or magnitude, or raise any such question of policy or principle, that they ought to be dealt with by Private Bill and not by Provisional Order...
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Page 38 - I think that in deciding whether or not in a particular case exceptional substances are minerals, the true test is that laid down by Lord Halsbury in Magistrates of Glasgow v. Farie. The Court has to determine ' what these words meant in the vernacular of the mining world, the commercial world, and landowners ' at the time when the purchase was effected, and whether the particular substance was so regarded as a mineral.
Page 32 - the company shall not be entitled to any mines of coal, ironstone, slate, or other minerals under any land purchased by them except only such parts thereof as shall be necessary to be dug or carried away, or used in the construction of the works...
Page 86 - I have that high opinion of the law of England generally, which one is likely to derive from the impression that it puts all the honest men under the diabolical hoofs of all the scoundrels.
Page 66 - Act, and that he is leading persistently a dishonest or criminal life ; or (b) that he has on such a previous conviction been found to be a habitual criminal and sentenced to preventive detention.
Page 39 - I think the reservation must be taken to extend to all such bodies of mineral substances, lying together in seams, beds or strata, as are commonly worked for profit, and have a value independent of the surface of the land :