| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 882 pages
...it. It appears to be but a particular application of the general rule thus stated by TINDALL, CJ : " The only rule for the construction of acts of parliament...the intent of the parliament which passed the act." And it is not new or peculiar here. Potter's Dwarris, 111. The last clause of the rule, relating to... | |
| John Campbell Allen - 1879 - 606 pages
...for the construction of Acts of Parlia" ment " said Tindal, CJ, " is that they should bo con" strued according to the intent of the Parliament which " passed the Act. If the words of the statute are in them" selves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be " necessary than to expound the words in... | |
| William Pugsley - 1880 - 716 pages
...in the Sussex Peerurjc ''•'*•,' in which he there states the law:— "My Lords, the only rule of construction of Acts of Parliament is, that they should be construed according the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act. If the words of the ••tatute are themselves... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1881 - 848 pages
...in recent times our courts have fully and explicitly disclaimed any such powers of interpretation. " The only rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament...the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act;" provided that the words be "sufficient to accomplish the manifest purpose of the Act" (a). In like... | |
| Edward Wilberforce - Government paperwork - 1881 - 494 pages
...construction of statutes. ture"The only rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament," says Tindal, CJ, "is that they should be construed according to the intent of the Parliament which passed them. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary... | |
| Straits Settlements - Law - 1882 - 258 pages
...of Lords says : — " The Rule for the construction of Statutes is that they should be construed1 ' according to the intent of the Parliament which passed...unambiguous, then no more can be necessary ' than to expound those words, in their natural and ordinary sense. The words them' selves do in such case best declare... | |
| Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - Legal maxims - 1884 - 1078 pages
...v. Mosiman, LK 4 Ex. Fin. 590; Arg., Story v. Clifton, 300 ; Carr Y. Royal Exchange Asi. 9 CB 110. is, that they should be construed according to the...unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound the words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves alone do, in such case, best declare... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1885 - 844 pages
...in recent times our courts have fully and explicitly disclaimed any such powers of interpretation. " The only rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament...the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act; " provided that the words be " sufficient to accomplish the manifest purpose of the Act" (/). (e) The... | |
| Canada - 1891 - 604 pages
...in the Sussex Peerage, Cane, 11 Cl. & F. 143. Their unanimous opinion was delivered by CJ Tindale. " The only rule for the construction of acts of parliament is that they should be consti ued according to the intent of parliament which passed the act. If the words of the statute... | |
| Jean Joseph Beauchamp, Great Britain. Privy Council - Civil law Canada - 1891 - 946 pages
...to as much weight as the rule which imposes it. GAUDET v. BROWN. "THE ARGUS" " THE HEWSON " ' 126. The only rule for the construction of Acts of parliament is that they shoudbe construed according to the intent of the parliament which passed the act. If the words of the... | |
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