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Banking [1968] RCS 435

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce c. General Factors Limited et al.

La Cour suprême rejette l’appel d’une banque qui revendiquait des comptes recevables déjà cédés à une société d’escompte, jugeant que la banque avait consenti implicitement aux cessions.

  • Assignment of receivables
  • Priority of security interests
  • Notice under bank act s.88
  • Discounting/escompte
  • Implicit consent by negotiation of cheques
  • Assignment-of-receivables
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Contract [1928] SCR 86

Grenier Motor Co. v. Bernier

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld cancellation of the sale of an automobile, holding the purchaser’s error as to essential qualities justified rescission.

  • Rescission
  • Error as to substance
  • Nullity of sale
  • Automobile purchase
  • Sale-of-goods
  • Civil-code
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Contract law (1918) 56 SCR 365

Gagnon v. Lemay

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the default clause in the sale agreement was a pacte commissoire benefiting the vendor only, so the purchaser could not end the contract by default.

  • Rescission
  • Lex commissoria (pacte commissoire)
  • Resolutive condition
  • Mise en demeure
  • Forfeiture of payments
  • Contract-rescission
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Torts (1908) 41 SCR 259

DeKérangat v. Eastern Townships Bank

La Cour suprême du Canada a rejeté l’appel dans une action en négligence liée à la démolition d’un immeuble vendu, retenant que la banque n’avait plus le contrôle des travaux.

  • Negligence
  • Vicarious liability
  • Sale of ruined building
  • Personal responsibility of vendor
  • Demolition by purchaser
  • Municipal regulation of demolition
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Property (1900) 30 SCR 485

Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Therrien

The Supreme Court of Canada held that a landowner whose property touched the railway on only one side had no statutory right to a farm crossing at the company's expense.

  • Servitude
  • Farm crossings
  • Right of way
  • Jurisdiction of provincial legislature over federal railways
  • Interpretation of railway statutes
  • Farm-crossings
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Contract (1898) 29 SCR 247

Collins Bay Rafting & Forwarding Co. v. Kaine

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the tug charter was a demise lease, that the charterer’s pilot’s daytime navigation raised a presumption of negligence, and that repair costs measured damages.

  • Lease/demise charter
  • Seaworthiness
  • Negligence/presumption of fault
  • Measure of damages (cost of repairs)
  • Survey and proof
  • Burden of proof
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Landlord and tenant (1889) 16 SCR 637

Evans v. Skelton

The Supreme Court of Canada considered whether a lease clause excepting “accidents by fire” relieved lessees from liability after a Montreal store and factory burned.

  • Lease
  • Accident by fire
  • Lessee liability
  • Burden of proof
  • Construction defect
  • Insurance proceeds
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