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" Justice was right in saying that a retrospective operation ought not to be given to the statute, "unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in clear, plain, and unambiguous language, because it manifestly shocks... "
The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900 - Page 38
by New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1898
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Irish Chancery Reports: Being a Series of Reports of Cases Argued and ...

Ireland. High Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 692 pages
..."administer the law very properly guard against giving to an Act "of Parliament a retrospective operation, unless the intention of "the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in "plain, clear, and unambiguous language; because it manifestly "strikes our sense of justice that an...
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Irish Common Law Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined ..., Volume 16

Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 694 pages
...administer the law very properly guard against giving to an Act "of Parliament a retrospective operation, unless the intention of "the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in " plain, clear, and unambiguous language ; because it manifestly "strikes our sense of justice that...
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Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative ...

Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...administer the law very properly guard against giving to an act of parliament a retrospective operation, unless the intention of the legislature that it should...construed is expressed in clear, plain and unambiguous iBuhl v. Kenyon, 11 Mich. 249. See Westinghausen v. People, 44 id. See Westervelt v. People, 20 Wend....
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 49

Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 944 pages
...administer the law, very properly guard against giving to an act of Parliament a retrospective operation, unless the intention of the legislature that it should...expressed in clear, plain, and unambiguous language.' Such laws are looked upon with general disfavor. In Dash \. Van Kli-cck, 7 Johns. 500, Kent, Ch. J.,...
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Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of ..., Volume 2

Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1904 - 832 pages
...administer the law very properly guard against giving to an act of parliament a retrospective operation, unless the intention of the legislature that it should...expressed in clear, plain and unambiguous language."'" Such laws are looked upon with general disfavor. In Dash v. Van Kleeck,82 Kent, CJ, said: "There has...
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The Digest of English Case Law: Containing the Reported ..., Volumes 11-15

John Mews - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 806 pages
...Dismissal without Compensation. ] A retrospective operation ought not to be given 62 VOL. XI. to я statute unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed ig expressed in plain and unambiguous language, where the effect of such construction would be to convert...
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The Scots Law Times, Volume 1

Law - 1914 - 560 pages
...question that these provisions should be retrospective, and such operation should not be given to a statute " unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language " (per Erie CJ in Midland Railway \. Pye, 10 UB (NS) 191, approved in...
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On the Interpretation of Statutes, Volume 6

Sir Peter Benson Maxwell, Wyatt Wyatt-Paine - Law - 1920 - 970 pages
...repealed law (a). Bat although as a general principle retrospective operation ought not to be given to a statute unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language (b), it seems where vested rights are divested, and acts which were...
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Mews' Digest of English Case Law: Containing the Reported ..., Volume 16

John Mews - Courts - 1926 - 760 pages
...Kane v. Stewart, 8au. & Sc. 84. n.; l Jones, 630. A retrospective operation ought not to be given to a statute unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language, where the effect of such construction would be to convert an act wrongfully...
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International Law Reports: Volume 10: Annual Digest of Public International ...

H. Lauterpacht - Business & Economics - 1986 - 688 pages
...Interpretation of Statutes : ' As a general principle retrospective operation ought not to be given to a statute unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language ' (8th edition, 1937, p. 5). The same rule is expressed in a number...
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