 the only rule for the construction of Acts of 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 and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary...  American Law Magazine - Sida 1651846Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1873 - 962 sidor
...Sitssex Peerage Case (14) appears to be applicable to the present Statute. It is as follows : " The only rule .for the construction of Acts of Parliament is...which passed the Act. If the words of the Statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound these words in... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1845 - 814 sidor
...consent first had and obtained, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes." My Lords, the only rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament is,...which passed the Act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 sidor
...insert them, even at the risk of some repetition : — " The only rule for the construction of acte of Parliament is, that they should be construed according...which passed the act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound the words in their... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - 1849 - 830 sidor
...was adopted by the House, laid down a general rule for construing Acts of Parliament. — The only rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament is...which passed the Act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1851 - 552 sidor
...Peerage case (11 Cl. & Fin. 86), Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in his judgment (p. 143), says, "the only rule for the construction of acts of Parliament is,...which passed the act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1851 - 552 sidor
...Peerage ease (11 Cl. & Fin. 86), Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in his judgment (p. 143), says, " the only rule for the construction of acts of Parliament is, that they should be constructed according to the intent of the Parliament" which passed the act. If the words of the statute... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 sidor
...affords a good clue to discover what that object was.1 " The L -• *only rule," it has been said, " for the construction of acts of Parliament is, that...which passed the act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound the words in their... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 sidor
...Lords, J Chief Justice Tindal thus expressed his learned and enlightened view of that matter. " The only rule for the construction of acts of parliament is,...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1857 - 572 sidor
...parliament, is that given by TINDAL, CJ, in the Sussex Peerage case, 11 Clark & Fin. 143, " The only rule for the construction of acts of parliament, is,...which passed the act. If the words of the statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound those words in... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 sidor
...sight of; but there is abundant authority to sustain it. " The only rule," says Lord Ch. J. Tindal,"for the construction of acts of Parliament is, that they...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... | |
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