... Act CHAPTER Y-1 An Act respecting young offenders SHORT TITLE Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Young Offenders Act. 1980-81-82-83, c. 110, s. 1. INTERPRETATION Definitions 2. (1) In this Act, "adult" «adulte » "adult" means a person who is neither a young person nor a child; "alternative measures" «mesures de rechange » "alternative measures" means measures other than judicial proceedings under this Act ... worker" «délégué à la jeunesse » "youth worker" means a person appointed or designated, whether by title of youth worker or probation officer or by ...

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... land. Now, a squatter has better rights to the land than its paper owner. After 12 years of adverse possession, the Limitation Act 1980 prevents the legal owner from raising a claim of possession. The owner of the property must surrender the title to the squatter. The regulation of the use of the land is stated in sections 29 and 30, that if the ... could successfully defeat the landowner's claim to possession because he had been in adverse possession for the 12-year period specified in section 15 of the Limitation Act 1980. Neuberger J claimed that loss of title through adverse possess...

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... stop the mining leases being granted. In the 150-page judgement it was decided that "communal native title" had never formed part of Australian law. In 1985, the Queensland government had passed the Coast Islands Declaratory Act, which stated that the islands in the Torres Strait, where Murray Island is situated, were a ... , use and enjoy the Murray Islands. In its decision the court acknowledged that common law must recognise the concept of "native title" but the title could be extinguished by a valid act of either the state or federal parliaments expressing a plain and clear intention...

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... follows that the 1969 white paper was not surprising. The white paper dismissed treaties as of little significance and denied any legal character to aboriginal title claims. No big deal. The "rights" that were being rejected were myths and fairy tales, not rights recognized in Canadian law. In ... courts. Now it is clear that the courts are better than the politicians. The first major case showing the shift was the Nishga aboriginal title case, Calder v Attorney General of British Columbia, decided by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1973. Technically the Nishga lost, but the ... . The S...

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... The State Act did not come about by chance, but rather by necessity, in order, once again, to respond to exceptional circumstances brought about by Irish terrorism. The purpose of the law, which was passed on 14 June, 1939, was, as its interminable original title states: "to ... decision of the government establishing that the circumstances for the exercise of this court are in place. Moreover, while article 35 of the 1939 Act allows the possibility of implementing part 5 at any time, and therefore setting up special courts by a government declaration, the fourth paragraph ... to prepa...

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... also as the bail, or, more accurately, the bail bondis set by the court having jurisdiction over the prisoner. The security may be cash, the papers giving title to property, or the bond of private persons of means or of a professional bondsman or bonding company. Failure of the person released on bail to surrender himself at ... places like China the sentancing for crime over there are twice as much as the crime are here, say if someone gets fifteen years over here for a criminal act someone over there will get thirty years, and the crime rate in china is 50% less as the crime are here in...

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... complaint of the clergymen. This time he explains why he and his followers did not wait for the new city administration to act: "...the new Birmingham administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one, before it will act." Since King is aware that he must massage egos, rather than beginning by hurling pejoratives at the new mayor, King initially ... right to rob Negroes of their very identity. Then after complaining of the fact that Negro wives and mothers are "never given the respected title "Mrs.,"" King taunts the clergymen by sarcastically referring to them with the t...

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... toy is not a command unless it is backed by a threat) in case the wish is not fulfilled, issued by someone who is willing and able to act on the threat. All commands impose obligations. But only the general rules and commands. Eg: Prohibition of importation of corn is a rule, but one that ... conferring rules as they just provide benefit. Moreover, they are not STANDING as duty imposing rules. 3. Duty imposed by rules are separate moral reasons to act for the good citizens, so only sanction cannot be the way in which law should be seen. Like rewarding good behavior or rewards. So laws ca...

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