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It did not relate, for instance, to shipping, seaworthiness, navigation, admiralty law or international maritime conventions. ... The plaintiff BVHB argues that uniformity is only necessary with respect to matters of navigation and shipping, such as navigational rules or items that are the subject of international conventions. ... Sale of goods does not involve the safe carriage of goods, shipping, the seaworthiness of a ship, good seamanship, or international maritime conventions. ...

It is only after the most careful and respectful consideration of the earlier decision, and after giving due weight to all the circumstances, that a Justice may give effect to his own opinions in preference to an earlier decision of the Court. [27]                           The vertical convention of precedent is not at issue with respect to the decision as to whether the Supreme Court should overrule one of its own precedents. ...

I do not doubt that it is in pari materia and should be considered, if necessary, in construing the regulations just as the Rome Convention was considered in construing the Copyright Amendment Act intended to implement it. ...

The collective agreement that governed the labour relations of the employees at the Château Frontenac at the relevant time stipulated that it was agreed that when the organizer of a function such as a convention or a banquet leaves tips to the hotel for distribution, eighty percent (80%) of these tips are to be distributed by the hotel to the employees governed by the collective agreement who have worked during these functions.   4.                 ...

Brownlie has stated at p. 51 of Principles of Public International Law (3rd ed. 1979):   If the convention may be used on the correct principle that the statute is intended to implement the convention then, it follows, the latter becomes a proper aid to interpretation, and, more especially, may reveal a latent ambiguity in the text of the statute even if this was `clear in itself'.  ...

The matter of this convention was a large scale industrial development at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, involving the extensive use of hydro-electric power in the production of fertilizers and allied substances and the manufacture [Page 638] of pulp and paper. ... A contract is a convention resting upon and within limits allowed by law. ...

The matter of this convention was a large scale industrial development at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, involving the extensive use of hydro-electric power in the production of fertilizers and allied substances and the manufacture of pulp and paper. ... A contract is a convention resting upon and within limits allowed by law. ...

Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries.  ... Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities by its resolution 1994/45, August 26, 1994, provides in Article 35   that:   Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with other peoples across borders.     82           Similarly, Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, June 27, 1989, provides in Article 32:   Governments shall take appropriate measures, including by means of international agreements, to facilitate contacts and co-operation between indigenous and tribal peoples across borders, including activities in the economic, social, cultural, spiritual and environmental fields.     83           Comparable language is found in the Draft of the Inter-American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on September 18, 1995, although it also provides specifically in Article 24 that:   Nothing in this instrument shall be construed as granting any rights to ignore boundaries between States.     84           Canada has taken various concrete steps to try to minimize the disruption of Akwesasne created by the international boundary.  ...

The reason for these payments is given in the judgment of the Tax Appeal Board [21 Tax A.B.C. 178 at 184], as follows: Turning to the second phase of the matter, the appellant learned some years after it had begun to sell ore in substantial quantities that the American revenue authorities had designs on its income on the alleged grounds that it had been earned in the United States of America and that the appellant had a permanent establishment there within the meaning of the Tax Convention and Protocol between Canada and the United States of America, signed on or about 4th March, 1942. ...

The legislature is presumed to know its own statute book and to draft each new provision with regard to the structures, conventions, and habits of expression as well as the substantive law embodied in existing legislation.  . . . ...