 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...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 that...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 814 pages
...SOLICITOR AND CLIENT. STATUTE, CONSTRUCTION OF. See OFFICE. RAILWAY. 1 . By the Judges : — The rule for the construction of Acts of Parliament is, that...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... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...and are so to construe the act as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy. The general rule for the construction of acts of Parliament is, that...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... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...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 that...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... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...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, that...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... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pages
...Chief Justice Tindal thus expressed his learned and enlightened view of that matter. " The only rule for the construction of acts of parliament is, that...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... | |
 | 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,...expound the words in their natural and ordinary sense. In such case, the words themselves do best declare the intention of the law-giver." Broom's Legal Maxims,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 572 pages
...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, that...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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...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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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. 
