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100

This right for detained or arrested persons requires a positive manifestation or assertion to take advantage of it

What is the right to counsel

100

This British judge is a favourite of many contracts professors

Who is Lord Denning

100

Under this principle under international law a European nation could ‘legally’ come to control a land if they ‘discovered it’, irrespective of the Indigenous populations on the land. .

What is the Doctrine of Discovery

100

This botanical metaphor is key to interpreting Canadian Constitutional Law

what is the living tree

100

The vindictive owner of this hotel set the precedent regarding sunlight with his questionable actions

What is the Fountainbleau Hotel

200

If a search incident to arrest takes place in a house, where are the police allowed to search and what are they allowed to search for or those respective places. Provide case citation.

R v Stairs: allowed to search for evidence and safety threats in the immediate area considered under control of the accused, and if they have reasonable grounds to suspect a safety threat, they can search rooms sufficiently proximate.    

200

This aspect of contracts is often represented with peppercorns

What is Consideration

200

What are the steps for determining Aboriginal title as set out in Delgamuukw?

Occupied prior to establishment of crown sovereignty; Continuous use; exclusive use

200

If a Province seeks to pass economic legislation under 92(13), what must it do and refrain from doing to be valid?

What is keeping its main thrust has to be towards regulating something WITHIN the province. If it does this, it is fine if it affects inter-provincial trade as long as its main goal is to regulate within the province (Carnation). It must not pass legislation with the main goal of targeting inter-provincial trade (Manitoba Egg Reference)  

200

In battery, these two elements must be present for fraud-vitiated consent

what is dishonesty and serious bodily harm

300

This mens rea standard is considered equal to knowledge, according to R v Briscoe.

What is wilful blindness?

300

This thing is determined by the intention to be bound to contract on certain terms, that is objectively determined by an observer who is examining the actions and words of the parties. Must include statement of key terms.

What is an offer

300

This type of feudal relationship was also known as shield-money

what is scutage

300

This substance defined the limits of the Federal Government's criminal power

What is Margerine

300

The following are the elements of this kind of legal defense:

1. The matter must be in the public interest; 

2. The comment must be based on fact. 

3. It must be recognizable as a comment; 

4. It must pass the honest belief test; and 

5. The comment must not be motivated by malice

 What is the defense of "fair comment"

400

Circumstances of the encounter, Nature of police conduct, and Characteristics of the Accused. are the factors for determining this kind of detention

What is Psychological detention without legal compulsion

400

This hockey player changed the rules for minors repudiating/voiding contracts

Who is John Tonelli

400

Name this rule: "No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, no later than 21 years after some life in being at the creation of the interest."

What is the Rule Against Perpetuities 

400

This doctrine applies when a law impairs a core competence of an undertaking in the other government's jurisdiction

What is Interjurisdictional Immunity (IJI)

400

These are the 5 parts to the emergency medical care exception to battery

What is 

  • Patient must be unconscious or unable to make a decision (minor/mentally ill)
  • No agent present to decide on their behalf
  • Delay would subject Plaintiff to risk of serious bodily harm or death
  • Under circumstances a reasonable person would consent
  • Probability that the patient would consent
500

This principal was argued to be a principal of fundamental justice in R v Malmo-Levine

What is the principal of fundamental justice

500

Carbolic was decided in favour of the plaintiff when the judge determined that the company's advertisement was actually this type of legal document

What is a unilateral contract

500

This well-known case is the origin of the concept of "pre-possessory interest"

What is Popov v Hayashi

500

In this case the SCC discussed "Project Viking"

What is RJR MacDonald v Canada (Attorney General)

500

The gravity of the harm in nuisance cases encompasses these five things

What is:

Severity

Character of neighbourhood/local standard of comfort

Sensitivity of the plaintiff

Frequency and duration

Nature of the Defendant’s conduct