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SUPREME COURT CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT 1932 - SECT 11
Miscellaneous rules of law
(1)
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(2) Except as provided by the Trustee Act 1898 , no claim of a cestui
que trust against his trustee for any property held on an express trust, or in
respect of any breach of such trust, shall be held to be barred by any statute
of limitations.
(3) An estate for life without impeachment of waste shall not confer or
be deemed to have conferred upon a tenant for life any legal right to commit
waste of the description known as equitable waste, unless an intention to
confer such right shall expressly appear by the instrument creating such
estate.
(4) As from the commencement of the Legal Procedure Act 1903 , there
shall not be any merger by operation of law only of any estate, the beneficial
interest in which would not be deemed to be merged or extinguished in equity.
(5) A mortgagor entitled for the time being to the possession or receipt
of the rents and profits of any land, not being land under the provisions of
the Land Titles Act 1980 , as to which no notice of his intention to take
possession or to enter into the receipt of the rents and profits thereof shall
have been given by the mortgagee, may sue for such possession, or for the
recovery of such rents or profits, or to prevent or recover damages in respect
of any trespass or other wrong relative thereto, in his own name only, unless
the cause of action arises upon a lease or other contract made by him jointly
with any other person.
(6)
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(7) Stipulations in contracts as to time or otherwise which would not,
in the Supreme Court when exercising its jurisdiction in equity before the
commencement of the Legal Procedure Act 1903 , or this Act, have been deemed
to be or to have become of the essence of such contracts shall receive the
same construction and effect as they would have received in such Court when
exercising such jurisdiction before the commencement of the Legal Procedure
Act 1903 .
(8) Subject to the express provisions of any other Act, in questions
relating to the custody and education of infants the rules of equity shall
prevail.
(9) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the Rules of Court , the
rules of equity as to discovery shall apply to all proceedings in the Court
which are subject to this Act; but where an affidavit as to documents in the
possession or power of any party to any such proceeding has been made pursuant
to an order in that behalf, the Court or any judge thereof may, if it or he
thinks it just so to do, make an order for the inspection by any other party
to the proceeding of any document in the possession or power of such
first-mentioned party, notwithstanding that he has not referred to such
document in his affidavit of documents or that he has by affidavit claimed
protection from the production of such document on the ground that the same
forms, supports, evidences, or relates exclusively to his own case, and that
it contains nothing supporting or tending to support the case of the other
party and notwithstanding that the Court in its jurisdiction in equity would
not have ordered such inspection before the commencement of this Act; but
nothing in this subsection contained shall be so construed as to deprive any
party to any proceeding of any common law right to inspect any document.
(10) Generally, in all matters not particularly mentioned in this Act in
which there was, before the commencement of the Legal Procedure Act 1903 , or
this Act, any conflict or variance between the rules of equity and the rules
of the common law with reference to the same matter, the rules of equity
shall, subject to the express provisions of any other Act, prevail.
(11)
(a) Where by the fault of two or more vessels damage or loss is caused to one
or more of those vessels, to their cargoes or freight, or to any property on
board, the liability of the owner of each of those vessels to make good the
damage or loss shall be in proportion to the degree in which each vessel was
in fault: Provided that
(i) if, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, it is not possible
to establish different degrees of fault, the liability shall be apportioned
equally;
(ii) nothing in this subsection shall operate so as to render any such owner
liable for any loss or damage to which his vessel has not contributed;
(iii) nothing in this subsection shall affect the liability of any person
under a contract of carriage or any contract, or shall be construed as
imposing any liability upon any person from which he is exempted by any
contract or by any provision of law, or as affecting any right of any person
to limit his liability in the manner provided by law;
(iv) nothing in this subsection shall affect the right of an owner of a vessel
not itself in fault which has suffered damage or loss by reason of the fault
of two or more other vessels, to recover his damage or loss from the owners of
the vessels in fault jointly or severally; and
(v) nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the liability at
common law, as for a tort, of an owner of any vessel in fault to any owner of
any cargo or any property on board such vessel or any other vessel or vessels
in fault, it being the intent of this clause to preserve the right of the
owner at common law of any cargo or property on board any vessel in fault, who
is not the owner of any such vessel or otherwise responsible for the fault, to
recover the whole of his damage or loss from the owner of any such vessel;
(b) In this subsection references to damage or loss caused by the fault of a
vessel shall be construed as including references to any salvage or other
expenses, consequent upon that fault, recoverable at law by way of damages;
(c)
(i) Where loss of life or personal injuries is or are suffered by any person
on board a vessel, owing to the fault of that vessel and of any other vessel
or vessels, the liability of the owners of the vessels shall be joint and
several;
(ii) Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as depriving
any person of any right of defence on which, independently of this paragraph,
he might have relied in an action brought against him by the person injured or
any person or persons entitled to sue in respect of such loss of life, or
shall affect the right of any person to limit his liability in cases to which
this paragraph relates in the manner provided by law;
(d)
(i) Where loss of life or personal injuries is or are suffered by any person
on board a vessel, owing to the fault of that vessel and any other vessel or
vessels, and a proportion of the damages is recovered against the owners of
one of the vessels which exceeds the proportion in which she was in fault,
they may recover by way of contribution the amount of the excess from the
owners of the other vessel or vessels to the extent to which that vessel or
those vessels was or were respectively in fault;
(ii) Provided that no amount shall be recovered which could not, by reason of
any statutory or contractual limitation of, or exemption from, liability, or
which could not for any other reason, have been recovered in the first
instance as damages by the person entitled to sue therefor;
(iii) In addition to any other remedy provided by law the person entitled to
any such contribution as aforesaid shall, for the purpose of recovering the
same, have, subject to the provisions of this Act, the same rights and powers
as the person entitled to sue for damages in the first instance;
(e)
(i) No action or other proceeding shall be maintainable to enforce any claim
against the owner of a vessel in respect of any damage or loss to another
vessel, her cargo or freight, or any property on board her, or damages for
loss of life or personal injuries suffered by any person on board her, caused
by the fault of the former vessel, whether such vessel is wholly or partly in
fault, unless proceedings are commenced within two years from the date when
the damage or loss or injury was caused; and an action shall not be
maintainable under this subsection to enforce any contribution in respect of
an overpaid proportion of any damage for loss of life or personal injuries
unless proceedings therein are commenced within one year from the date of
payment;
(ii) Provided that the Court or a judge may, in accordance with the Rules of
the Court , extend any such period to such extent and on such conditions as it
or he thinks fit, and shall, if satisfied that there has not during such
period been any reasonable opportunity of enforcing the claim, extend such
period to an extent sufficient to give such reasonable opportunity;
(f) The provisions of this subsection
(i) shall be read and construed subject to the provisions of section 9 (5) ;
(ii) shall be read and construed subject to the Navigation Act 1912-1961 .
(12) An injunction may be granted or a receiver appointed by an
interlocutory order of the Court or a judge thereof in all cases in which it
shall appear to the Court or judge to be just and convenient that such order
should be made; and any such order may be made either unconditionally or upon
such terms and conditions as the Court or judge shall think just; and if,
whether before, or at, or after the hearing of any cause or matter, an
application is made for an injunction to prevent any threatened or apprehended
waste or trespass, the injunction may be granted if the Court or judge thinks
fit, whether the person against whom the injunction is sought is or is not in
possession under any claim of title or otherwise, or (if out of possession)
does or does not claim a right to do the act sought to be restrained under any
colour of title, and whether the estates claimed by both or by either of the
parties are legal or equitable.
(13)
(a) In all cases in which the Court or any judge thereof now has jurisdiction
to entertain an application for an injunction against a breach of any
covenant, contract, or agreement, or against the commission or continuance of
any wrongful act, or for the specific performance of any covenant, contract,
or agreement, it shall be lawful for the Court or any judge thereof, if it or
he thinks fit, to award damages to the party injured, either in addition to or
in substitution for such injunction or specific performance, and such damages
may be assessed in such manner as the Court or judge directs;
(b) But paragraph (a) shall not be so construed as to empower the Court or a
judge to award damages in substitution for an injunction in any case in which
no breach of covenant, contract, or agreement, or no wrongful act (as the case
may be), has been committed.
(14) In the case of any action for a forfeiture brought for non-payment
of rent, the Court or a judge thereof shall have power to give relief in a
summary manner, and subject to the same terms and conditions in all respects
as to payment of rent, costs, and otherwise as could formerly have been
imposed in the Court in its jurisdiction in equity; and if the lessee, his
executors, administrators, or assigns are so relieved, they shall hold the
demised premises according to the terms of the lease, and without the
necessity of any new lease.
(14A) Every tenant to whom there is delivered any writ in ejectment for
the recovery of premises demised to or held by him, or to whose knowledge any
such writ comes, shall forthwith give notice of that writ to his landlord,
bailiff, or receiver, and, if he fails so to do, he shall be liable to forfeit
to the person of whom he holds the premises an amount equivalent to the value
of 3 years' improved or rack rent of the premises, to be recovered by action
in the Court.
(15) No action or process may be had, maintained, or prosecuted against
a person on whose land a fire accidentally begins, and he shall not be
required to make recompense for any damage suffered thereby, any law, usage,
or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
(16) Subsection (15) does not affect contracts or agreements made between landlord and tenant.
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