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	Lyman Poore Duff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff, PC, GCMG (Ontario, January 7, 1865 – April 26, 1955) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and briefly served as Acting Governor General of Canada in 1940.
		In 1931, he served as Administrator of the Government of Canada between the departure of The Earl of Bessborough for India and the arrival of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
		Duff took on the position as the Chief Justice was unavailable.
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	Encyclopedia: Lyman Poore Duff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Duff, Sir Lyman Poore Duff, Sir Lyman Poore, 1865-1955, Canadian jurist, b.
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	Duff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Duff Islands are an island group northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands in the nation of the Solomon Islands.
		duff is a slang term for the bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed; crumbs
		HMS Duff, a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy, named after Captain Duff.
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	Volume 47(3) The Rise and Fall of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff, a member of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1906 to 1944, was heralded as one of the greatest jurists in Canada's legal history during the 1930s and 1940s.
		Although arguably only an adequate jurist, Duff's educational, ethnic, class, and religious background were of the kind required of an authoritative legal figure during this period.
		Duff thus served to link the former Dominion of the British Empire and the new and inde-pendent Canada of the future.
	www.journal.law.mcgill.ca /abs/vol47/3brown.html (675 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Lyman Poore Duff (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff 1865–1955, Canadian jurist, b.
		A lawyer and judge in British Columbia, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1906, and in 1933 he became chief justice, serving until his retirement in 1944.
		He was chairman (1931–32) of the Royal Commission on Transportation (popularly called the Duff Commission) appointed to inquire into railroad problems in Canada, and twice (1931, 1943) he was administrator of the government of Canada.
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	Duff Family Crest
		The first time Duff was used as a surname was among the Pict clans of ancient Scotland.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Duff coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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	Lyman Poore Duff - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lyman Poore Duff - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff, PC, GCMG (Ontario, January 7, 1865 – April 26, 1955) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and briefly served as acting Governor General of Canada in 1940.
		Lyman Poore Duff, 1865 births, 1955 deaths, Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada and Knights Grand Cross of St Michael and St George.
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	University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff sat on the Supreme Court of Canada for thirty-eight years, starting in 1906; he sat as chief justice for the last eleven years.
		During this entire period, Duff and the Court faced important issues concerning the meaning of the constitution.
		Duff began by advocating that the provinces and the dominion had been granted power separately from the United Kingdom.
	www.law-lib.utoronto.ca /law-review/abstract/ultr46-2/46_2_424.htm (221 words)

	Supreme Court of Canada - Lyman Poore Duff
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff, P.C., G.C.M.G. Lyman Poore Duff was born in Meaford, Canada West (Ontario), on January 7, 1865.
		He was the son of Charles Duff and Isabella Johnson.
		Chief Justice Duff died on April 26, 1955, at the age of 90.
	www.scc-csc.gc.ca /aboutcourt/judges/duff/index_e.asp (198 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Lyman Poore Duff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Lyman Poore Duff
		Sir Lyman Poore Duff was the most significant figure in the early years of the Supreme Court of Canada.
		He spent more than 37 years as a justice on the Court and was chief justice from 1933 to 1944.
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	Right Honourable Sir Lyman Poore Duff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the Commonwealth's most eminent jurists, L.P. Duff ws born in Meaford and educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.
		Called to the bar of Ontario in 1893, he practiced law in that province and in Victoria, B.C., until he became a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1904.
		Appointed to the Imperial Privy Council in 1918, he served as Canada's Chief Justice, 1933-44, and was knighted in 1934.
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	Duff, Sir Lyman Poore on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was chairman (1931-32) of the Royal Commission on Transportation (popularly called the Duff Commission) appointed to inquire into railroad problems in Canada, and twice (1931, 1943) he was administrator of the government of Canada.
		The Supreme Court of Canada and judicial legitimacy: the rise and fall of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff.
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	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Sir Lyman Rests -- Jan. 10, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the dingy, drafty former stable in Ottawa where sit the seven judges of Canada's Supreme Court in scarlet, ermine-trimmed robes and fl, tricornered hats, one chair will be empty this week.
		Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff, the Dominion's own counterpart of the late great Oliver Wendell Holmes, is retiring.
		For 37 years, almost eleven of them as Chief Justice, Sir Lyman sat on the Supreme Bench, heard and ruled on the constitutional issues that shaped Canada.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Duff Sir Lyman Poore
		Duff, Sir Lyman Poore (1865-1955), Canadian jurist and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1933-1944).
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	duff sir lyman poore - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Duff, Sir Lyman Poore : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
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		His canvases of the forests of northern Ontario reveal a distinctive style of painting and were a strong influence on the Group of Seven.
		A native of Meaford, the Right Honourable Sir Lyman Poore Duff, was one of Canada's most eminent jurists, an expert in constitutional law, particularly as applied to provincial and federal rights.
		The moving force behind the establishment of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, Major Charles Stuart, who settled near Thornbury in Grey county in 1851, devoted much of his life to humanitarian causes, strongly influencing the anti-slavery movement in England and the United States.
	www.ontla.on.ca /hansard/house_debates/35_parl/session2/l027.htm (20628 words)

	It's Time Parliament Reviewed Supreme Court Appointments
		Excellent men did serve the early court—notably Henri Eléar Taschereau, John Idington and Lyman Poore Duff—but they were often the exception.
		Retiring Justice Gérard LaForest was not the first member of the Supreme Court to propose Parliamentary scrutiny of appointments.
		Duff's reasons were the same then as LaForest's are today.
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	Governor General of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If the Governor General dies or leaves the country for more than one month, the Chief Justice of Canada (or, if that position is vacant, the senior Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) serves as Administrator of the Government of Canada, and exercises all powers of the Governor General.
		The only individuals to serve as Administrators due to the deaths of Governors General were Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff (1940) and Chief Justice Robert Taschereau (1967).
		Although the Governor General's powers are in theory extensive, they are in practice very limited.
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	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Lyman Poore Duff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Elevation -- Mar. 27, 1933 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Last week Puisne Judge Lyman Poore Duff became the Canadian equivalent of Charles Evans Hughes, through his elevation to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeding Rt.
		Even in Canada the appointment of pink and white Judge Duff did not receive the attention that a new Chief Justice in the U. would have.
		Canada's Supreme Court is the highest court in the Dominion, but Canadian subjects still have the right to appeal from it to the British Privy Council.
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	McGill Law Journal: The Supreme Court of Canada and judicial legitimacy: the rise and fall of Chief Justice Lyman Poore ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		McGill Law Journal: The Supreme Court of Canada and judicial legitimacy: the rise and fall of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff.@ HighBeam Research
		Legal institutions often seek to achieve legitimacy through connections to prominent members of the legal profession.
		During the Court's period of transition leading up to the end of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1949, Duff emerged as a justice thought capable of leading an...
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	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Decisions on Deal -- Jun. 29, 1936 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sitting in Ottawa's condemned Old Court Building, the five scarlet-robed Justices and Liberal Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff approved (4-to-2) an amendment to the criminal code providing criminal prosecution for unfair business practices such as the granting of discriminatory discounts, rebates, allowances.
		Ramsay MacDonald), onetime Lord Chancellor Viscount Sankey, India's onetime Chief Justice of the High Court of Lahore the Rt.
		Sir Shadi Lai and the Canadian Supreme Court's own Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff.
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		Sir Lyman Poore Duff (Ontario, 1865 — 1955) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and briefly served as acting Governor General in 1940.
		Though he held office only briefly, it can be argued that Justice Duff was the true first Canadian Governor General of Canada, and not Vincent Massey (1952-1959) who is usually recognized as such.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/lyman_poore_duff (216 words)

	Duff : A Life in the Law - Williams, David R.
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		Author Name: Williams, David R. Title: Duff : A Life in the Law
		Keywords: Canada Supreme Court Lyman Poore Duff Judge Canadian Law Biography
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	W.P.M. and J. Finkelman Kennedy., The, Right to Trade, An Essay in the Law of Tort. With an Appendix of Canadian Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Original crimson cloth, gilt, a bit spotted, else a very good copy.
		Presentation copy to Sir Lyman Poore Duff, "Canada's most distinguished jurist", the presentation made two weeks before Duff's appointment as Chief Justice of Canada, "Right Hon Mr Justice Duff / With compliments & / esteem / W P L Kennedy / 6 iv 33".
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