act of god in a contract

• Recovering humanae vitae in Canada.

... act of God, Who through the marriage contract invites men and women to cooperate with Him in the...

• Catholic Insight
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 9, October 2010

• Geauvreau-Turner (Estate) v. Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation, 2006 FC 514 (2006)

... disablement determined and ended the contract. As the Applicant has no entitlement to sick pay (...

• Federal Court

• What is interculturalism?/Qu'est ce que l'interculturalisme?

...The majority culture can contract, expand, and reconstruct itself to meet the mood a...

• McGill Law Journal
• Vol. 56 Nbr. 2, February 2011

• A.C. v. Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services), 2009 SCC 30 (2009)

... can, within certain limits, enter into a contract. He or she can also sue and be sued, and can give ...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• McDiarmid Lumber Ltd. v. God's Lake First Nation, [2006] 2 S.C.R. 846, 2006 SCC 58, 2006 SCC 58 (2006)

... not exempt from seizure or taxation contractual arrangements in the commercial mainstream that amo...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Force Majeure Clauses In Construction Contracts

The primary purposes of construction contracts are to clarify responsibilities (including performance and payment obligations) and to allocate risk. I...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English

• Bastien Estate v. Canada , 2011 SCC 38 ; [2011] 2 S.C.R. 710, Bastien Estate v. Canada, 2011 SCC 38, 2011 SCC 38 (2011)

... - the payment of interest pursuant to a contract - for the purposes of taxation has to be determine...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Accounting, Coercion and Social Control During Apprenticeship: Converting Slave Workers to Wage Workers in the British West Indies, C.1834-1838

The paper describes the nature and role of accounting during apprenticeship - the transition period from slavery to waged labor in the British West Indies. Planters, colonial legislators, and Parliamentary leaders all feared that freed slaves would flee to open lands unless they were bound to plantations. Thus, rather than relying entirely on economic incentives to maintain viable plantations, the Abolition Act and subsequent local ordinances embodied a complex synthesis of paternalism, categorization, penalties, punishments, and social controls that were collectively intended to create a class of willing waged laborers. The primary role of accounting within this structure was to police work arrangements rather than to induce apprentices to become willing workers. This post-emancipation...

.... . . that every contract between the employer and the praedial apprenticed ...

• Accounting Historians Journal, The
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 2, December 2005

• John Paul II: his gifts to marriage and the family.

...; marriage as a "covenant" (not as a "contract"); and marriage as sacrament. . Following is a dis...

• Catholic Insight
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 5, May 2011

• 'A Delicate Necessity': Bruker V. Marcovitz and the Problem of Jewish Divorce

In this article, we outline the case history starting with the decisions of the Quebec Superior Court and Court of Appeal, explain the questions that the majority and minority asked themselves in the Supreme Court of Canada, and conclude by analyzing that Court's decision and its implications for Jewish spouses and spouses of other religious minorities going through the divorce process. "15 This is also the theory behind Jewish divorce, and in the "vast majority"16 of cases, a get is freely given in accordance with that theory.\n"257 While some may view this as an example of the court unnecessarily interfering in matters of religion, such an approach may be necessary so as not to frustrate existing legislative provisions with respect to removing barriers to religious remarriage.258 As ...

... receive hetter nissu 'in ("permission to contract an additional marriage").20 If the wife dates or l...

• Canadian Journal of Family Law
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 2, July 2008