THE An Ordinance respecting Alimony. HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: the Supreme Territories 1. The Supreme Court of the North-West Territories shall Jurisdiction of have jurisdiction to grant alimony to any wife who would be Court of the entitled to alimony by the law of England or to any wife who in alimony would be entitled by the law of England to a divorce and to alimony as incident thereto or to any wife whose husband lives separate from her without any sufficient cause and under circumstances which would entitle her by the law of England to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights; and alimony when granted shall continue until the further order of the Court. C.O., c. 29, s. 1. Slander of females Special damage An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Slander. HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follow:: 1. In any action of slander founded on words spoken of the plaintiff imputing unchastity, adultery or profligacy to a female, whether married or unmarried, it shall not be necessary to allege or prove any special damage but such words shall be actionable per se. C.O., c. 30, s. 1. An Ordinance respecting Limitation of Actions in THE HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: contracts 1. All actions for recovery of merchants' accounts, bills, Actions on notes, and all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or simple other contract without specialty shall be commenced within six years after the cause of such action arose. C.O., c. 31, s. 1. Property Act (Imp.) 2. The provisions of The Real Property Limitation Act, The Real 1874, being chapter 57 of the Statutes of the Imperial Parlia- Limitation ment, passed in the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth years of in force Her Majesty's reign, are hereby declared to be in force and to have been in force in the Territories since the passing thereof. C.O., c. 31, s. 2. [3. No right to the access and use of light or any other easement, right in gross or profit a prendre shall be acquired by any person by prescription and no such right shall be deemed to have been so acquired prior to the coming into force of this Ordinance.] 1903, 2nd session, c. 7, s. 1. THE An Ordinance respecting Justices of the Peace. HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. Short title Appointment of justices Commission of the peace Alien not to be appointed No practising advocate to be justice Proviso Oath of office and allegiance Form of oath 1. This Ordinai.ce may be cited as "The Magistrates Ordinance." C.O. c. 32, s. 1. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 2. The Lieutenant Governor may appoint justices of the peace for the Territories who shall have jurisdiction as such throughout the same. C.O., c. 32, s. 2. 3. Whenever a new commission of the peace shall be issued all and such like former commissions shall become absolutely revoked and cancelled; and nothing in this Ordinance contained shall prevent the reappointment of any justice of the peace named in such former commission if the Lieutenant Governor shall think fit. C.O., c. 32, s. 3. 4. No person who is not a British subject by birth or naturalization shall be appointed as a justice of the peace. C.O., c. 32, s. 4. 5. When not otherwise especially provided for by law no advocate shall be appointed or act as a justice of the peace during the time he continues to practice as such. (2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any advocate appointed as a police magistrate. C.O., c. 32, s. 5; 1903, 2nd session, c. 10, s. 1. OATHS OF JUSTICES. 6. Every justice of the peace before he is gazetted as such and takes upon himself to act as a justice of the peace shall take and subscribe the oath of allegiance and the following oath before any person authorized to administer oaths and declarations in the Territories, that is to say: I, A.B., of in the district of (as the case may be) do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the office of justice of the peace and that I will do right to all manner of people |