. The Montreal law reports [microform]. Law reports, digests, etc; Law; Jurisprudence; Droit. i t * n i . 'I ""i T liT* I ^' ""^ ^ i . if^ UM. Ragin* Dooaaa. â *: V- u v-1. 188 MONTBKAfi LAW B^PORTfl. Ij^, judgment upon conviction herein jsintil the question shall have been decided. Upon this application I have reserved for the consider- ation of the Court sitting in Appeal, the following ques- tion :âIs the receipt mentioned in the indictment and which the witness Charles H. McOlintock swore that he signed in his quality of president and treasurer of the Eastern Townships
. The Montreal law reports [microform]. Law reports, digests, etc; Law; Jurisprudence; Droit. i t * n i . 'I ""i T liT* I ^' ""^ ^ i . if^ UM. Ragin* Dooaaa. â *: V- u v-1. 188 MONTBKAfi LAW B^PORTfl. Ij^, judgment upon conviction herein jsintil the question shall have been decided. Upon this application I have reserved for the consider- ation of the Court sitting in Appeal, the following ques- tion :âIs the receipt mentioned in the indictment and which the witness Charles H. McOlintock swore that he signed in his quality of president and treasurer of the Eastern Townships Mutual Fire Insprance'" Company, on the 2nd day of August, 1889, without receiving any money, in the following form:â" Received frpm W'illiam Doonan the sum of , beitig tho amounit due to the Eastern Townships Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in full to date," a valuable spcurity within th0 meaning of the 6th section of Cap. 178 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, or is it such a document that could be afterwards converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security ? Judgment was postponed. The prisoner was admitted to bail to appear at the next sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench to be held at Sher- brooke, in the district of St. Francis, on the Ist day of October next. (Signed,) E. T. Brooks, / J. S. C. Sherbrooke, 6th March, 1890. Mulvena, for the prisoner, urged that the indictinent was based on Chap. 1*78 of the Revised Statutes of Canada; that under this chapter a receipt was not a valuable security, although defined as such under Chapter 164 of the Re- vised Statutes respecting larceny and similar pftences;, # that the old Larceny Act (82 and 38 Vic.) formerly in- cluded the offence charged and also defined a receipt as a valuable security, but this Act had been repealed and replaced by two separate chapters of the Revised Statutes to wit: Chap. 164, "respecting Larceny and similar of- fences," and Chap. Its, "respecting the o
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