 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 814 pages
...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 - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...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 - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...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 - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...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 - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...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 - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 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,...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 - 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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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... 
