| Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...the present Statute. It is as follows : " The only rule .for the construction of Acts of Parliament is that they should be construed according to the...unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound these words in their ordinary and natural sense. The words themselves alone do in such case best declare... | |
| Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...even at the risk of some repetition : — " The only rule for the construction of acte of Parliament 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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 814 pages
...additionalevidence on that question. By the Judges: — The rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament is, that they should be construed according to the...which passed the Act. If the words of the statute are of themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more cao be necessary than to expound those words in... | |
| Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...suppress the mischief and advance the remedy. The general rule for the construction of acts of Parliament is, that they should be construed according to the...which passed the act. If the words of the statute are of themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pages
...learned and enlightened view of that matter. " The only rule for the construction of acts of parliament is, that they should be construed according to the...parliament which passed the act. If the words of the act are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound the words... | |
| Bengal (India). Sadr Nizāmat 'Adālat, J. Carrau - Criminal law - 1853 - 1020 pages
...Tindal, chief justice, delivering the opinion of the judges, at page 439 of Broom's Legal Maxims : — ' If the words of the statute are in themselves •...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,... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 798 pages
...construction. The very authority quoted by counsel aptly enforces this construction. " If the words of a statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound the words in their natural and ordinary sense. In such case, the words themselves do best declare the... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...to sustain it. " The only rule," says Lord Ch. J. Tindal,"for the construction of acts of Parliament is, that they should be construed according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the act."* The rule is, as we shall constantly see, cardinal and universal, that if the statute is plain and unambiguous... | |
| 1857 - 356 pages
...doctrine is laid down by the authority of the 10 ci. and r., House of Lords : — " If the words of a statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound these words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves do in such a case best declare... | |
| Mercer Beasley - Equity - 1863 - 610 pages
...urged by the complainants upon the argument, and the following ones in particular: "If the words of a statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound the words in their ordinary and natural sense. The words themselves alone do, in such case, but declare... | |
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