PROPERTY AND CIVIL RIGHTS. 246 Judicial Committee, “it is impossible to advance a step in the construction of a scheme for the administration of insolvent estates without interfering with and modifying some of the ordinary rights of property and other civil rights®.” Patents, copyrights, lands reserved for Indians as well as other specific subjects enumerated in the 91st section, relate to property and civil rights, and therefore it is only as regards property and civil rights other than the property and civil rights assigned to the Dominion Parliament that fall within the jurisdiction of the provincial Legislatures. In some cases a province may avoid any conflict by Saving inserting a special clause in the provincial Act. A grant of was shore or of land extending into the water, with a proviso that the grant was not to give any right to interfere with « sommerce and navigation,” was held valid, inasmuch as this proviso reserved all Dominion rights’. The provincial rights are limited also by the implied Implied power of the Dominion to legislate on property and civil Jompal rights so far as that is necessary to exercise jurisdiction over the subjects assigned to it. On this ground the Dominion Act, 34 Vie. c. 5, s. 46, authorizing the transfer of warehouse receipts to banks by direct endorsement was held valid, inasmuch as such legis- lative power was implied in the right to regulate trade, commerce and banking”. The validity of the Canadian Temperance Act 1878, which authorized the inhabitants of a city or county under certain restrictions to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, was challenged on this ground amongst others, that it affected « property and civil rights” in the provinces, but the Judicial 1 Cushing v. Dupuy, 5 App. Cas. 409; 1 Cart. 252: and see Kinney v. Dudman, N. 8. 2 Russell & Chesley 19; 2 Cart. 412. ‘ 2 Normand v. St Lawrence Navigation Co. Q. 5 L. R. 215; 2 Cart. 231. 3 Smith v. the Merchants’ Bank, O. 28 Grant, 629 ; 1 Cart. 828, and see Crombie v. Jackson, 34 U. C. Q. B. 575; 1 Cart. 685.