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- Lettre de Charles D. Day au gouverneur Lord Elgin au sujet de la préséance des juges de la Cour du banc de la reine : Montréal . - Copiée en [18-] (original créé le 19 septembre 1848)
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Lettre de Charles D. Day au gouverneur Lord Elgin au sujet de la préséance des juges de la Cour du banc de la reine : Montréal . - Copiée en [18-] (original créé le 19 septembre 1848)
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- A typed letter on white paper, headed 'Copy' and addressed to His Excellency the Earl of Elgin & Kincardine, Governor General, with the salutation 'May it please Your Excellency'. The body is in dense single-spaced typescript about a judge's petition and the order of precedence among judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, with some handwritten corrections and insertions in ink. A faint stamp in the lower right corner reads 'Archives de la Ville de Montréal'.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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- CopyTo His Excellency the Earl of Elgin & Kincardine, Governor General,May it please Your Excellency,001119I avail myself of the opportunity graciously afforded by Your Excellency to offer a few observations suggested by Mr. Justice Bedard's Petition to Her Majesty the Queen on the subject of the precedence granted to him; as I find nothing in the Petition or the reasons accompanying it which seems to me to affect the view I have taken of the question in my letter of the 20th June last, these observations may be very brief.I was not prepared for Mr. Justice Bedard's denial that at the time of his appointment to the Court of Queen's Bench for the District of Montreal, I actually held the rank of Senior Puisne Judge in that Court and took precedence there next after its Chief Justice; or for his complaint that he had been deprived of his rank by not being permitted to take precedence there over Mr. Justice Smith and myself. It is surely undeniable, as a matter of fact, that Mr. Justice Bedard never had any place in that Court and could not therefore be deprived of any. It is true he had precedence in other Courts, but he found it convenient to make arrangements by which he resigned his Judicial Office and with it necessarily his rank, even in those Courts; and he can scarcely be entitled to make it a grievance that Mr. Justice Smith and myself were unwilling to yield the places which we held certainly in fact, and as we believed, by right also in our Court. Mr. JusticeRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
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