 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...statute 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...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 as a safe... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 814 pages
...intent of the Parliament which passed the Act. If the words of the statute are of themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to...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.... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...intent of the Parliament which passed the act. If the words of the statute are of themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to...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 - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...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 than to...such case best declare the intention of the lawgiver. But if any doubt arises from the terms employed by the Legislature, it has always been held a safe... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...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 than to...case, best declare the intention of the lawgiver." And in The Mayor, §•c. of Salford v. Ackers (16 Mee. & Wels. 85), Rolfe, B., in his judgment (p.... | |
 | Bengal (India). Sadr Nizāmat 'Adālat, J. Carrau - Criminal law - 1853 - 1020 pages
...are in themselves • precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than " to expound the words in their natural and ordinary sense. , . •...case, best declare the • intention of the lawgiver.' He further argued that though tant points, to appear against them in the courts to which the}1 were... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 572 pages
...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 than to...case, best declare the intention of the law-giver. But, if any doubt arises from the terms employed by the legislature, it has always been held a safe... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 pages
...the Sussex Peerage case, by Chief Justice Tindal ; thus, "If the words are in themselves precise and unambiguous, « then no more can be necessary than...their natural and ordinary sense; the words themselves do in " such case best declare the intention of the lawgiver." And I confess I approve, as applicable... | |
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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. 
