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 This section provides research and best practices in order to resolve or aid in resolving legal questions. The contents vary greatly.  This section provides research and best practices in order to resolve or aid in resolving legal questions. The contents vary greatly. 
  
 +===== Index =====
 +
 +{{indexmenu>:firm:law#2}}
  
 ===== Legal research ===== ===== Legal research =====
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 ''The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, provided the same be not made an excuse for acts of licentiousness, or a justification of practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the Province, is by the constitution and laws of this Province assured to all Her Majesty’s subjects within the same.'' ''The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, provided the same be not made an excuse for acts of licentiousness, or a justification of practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the Province, is by the constitution and laws of this Province assured to all Her Majesty’s subjects within the same.''
  
 +===== The statute law ======
 +
 +The statutes applicable in the Province of Ontario are, somewhat obviously, those enacted by the Parliament of Canada and the Parliament of the Province of Ontario. These acts are found online, and the King's Printer will publish the official versions of acts. The printers' websites are
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 +  * {{https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/|Consolidated Statutes of Canada}}; 
 +  * {{https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/AnnualStatutes/index.html|Annual Statutes of Canada}}; 
 +  * {{https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/|Consolidated Regulations of Canada}}; 
 +  * {{https://www.ontario.ca/laws|Statutes of Ontario}}; and
 +  * {{https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulations|Regulations of Ontario}}.
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 +Whereever possible, the consolidated statute book ought to be consulted and cited.
 +
 +==== Expired statutes ====
 +
 +Legislative history may play into the interpretation of statutes, and a review of a statute or statutory provision may require a look at those provisions as they existed in previous forms. This task can become dicey: statutes in previous form and historical statute books are sometimes difficult to find. To this end, those books that have been found are linked below.
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 +When reviewing //ye olde statutes//, remember {{https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-4.html#h-29|section 129}} of the //Constitution Act, 1867//, which carried over statutes enacted by the Parliaments of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into the union. This section has its analogues in the other acts of union admitting new provinces. Some statutes enacted before confederation or admission to the union remain in force. These acts will usually be reproduced in consolidated statutes; annual statute books will not contain them. 
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 +--> Private acts are not reproduced in the consolidated statutes. These documents must be found in the old books. <--
 +
 +===== Statute books =====
 +
 +==== Parliament of Canada ====
 +
 +==== Parliament of the Province of Ontario ====
 +
 +==== Parliament of the Province of Canada ====
 +
 +==== Parliament of Upper Canada ====
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 +  * {{https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_10042|Statutes of Her Majesty's province of Upper Canada, 1792-1840}}
  
 +==== Parliament of Lower Canada ====

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