If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves alone do in such case best declare the intention of the lawgiver. The Common Law of England - Page 66by William Blake Odgers, Walter Blake Odgers - 1920 - 1584 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1873 - 962 pages
...Parliament is that they should be construed according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act. If the words of the Statute are in themselves precise...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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1845 - 814 pages
...according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act. If the words of the statute are of themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can...their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves do, in such case, best declare the intention of the Legislature. — Sussex Peerage Case, p. 85. 2.... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 pages
...Parliament is, that they should be construed according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise...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... | |
| 1848 - 558 pages
...according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the act. If the words of the statute are of themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can...their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves do, in such a case, best declare the intention of the Legislature (x). The following seem to be the... | |
| Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - 1849 - 830 pages
...Parliament is that they should be construed according to the intent of the Parliament which passed the Act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise...ordinary sense. The words themselves alone do in such case best declare the intention of the lawgiver. But if any doubt arises from the terms employed by... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1851 - 552 pages
...is, that they should be constructed according to the intent of the Parliament" which passed the act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise...ordinary sense. The words themselves alone do, in such case, best declare the intention of the lawgiver." And in The Mayor, fyc. of Salford v. Ackers (16... | |
| Bengal (India). Sadr Nizāmat 'Adālat, J. Carrau - 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,... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pages
...can be necessary than to expound the words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves, do, in such a case, best declare the intention of the lawgiver. But if any doubt arise from the terms employed by the legislature, it has always been held a safe means of collecting... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pages
...be construed according to the intent of 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 in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves, do, in such a case, best declare... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
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