| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1823 - 856 pages
...Bristol, to have superadded the qualification of householder to the qualification before required. Now, the meaning of particular words in acts of parliament,...in popular use, as in the subject or occasion, on whiqh they are used, and the object that is intended to be attained. The meaning of the word " inhabitants"... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 972 pages
...particular words in acts of parliament" (to use the words of Abbott, CJ, in The Queen v. Hall (7),) "is to be found not so much in a strict etymological propriety...in the subject or occasion on which they are used." It is in this sense that the meaning of the word " passengers" is to bo here considered, and, so considered,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 612 pages
...Dowl. & Ryl. 214,(a) ABBOTT, CJ, in delivering the judgment of the court of King's Bench, says : " The meaning of particular words in acts of parliament, as well as in other instruments, is to be found not so much in a strict etymological propriety of language, nor... | |
| Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...preserve the intent.2 The meaning of particular words, indeed, in acts of Parliament, as well as in other instruments, is to be found, not so much in...even in popular use, as in the subject or occasion in which they are used, and the object that is intended to be attained.3 " Such is the imperfection... | |
| Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Edmund F. Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 596 pages
...of particular words in an Act of Parliament, to use the words of Abbott, CJ, in Rex v. Hall (a), "is to be found not so much in a strict etymological propriety...in the subject or occasion on which they are used." It is in this sense that the meaning of the word "Passengers" is to be here considered, and, so considered,... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1864 - 562 pages
...distinguishable. The meaning of particular words in a statute, in the absence of express definition, "is to IK found not so much in a strict etymological propriety of language, nor even in popular UM, as in the subject or oeeonc* on which they are used." Per Abbott, CJal B.$ C. 136, approved. This... | |
| John Campbell Allen - 1879 - 606 pages
...non-residence will make him a noninhabitant. As said by Lord Chief-Justice Abbott, in Rex v. Hall («)," The meaning of particular words in Acts of " Parliament as well as other instruments, is to be found, u not so much in a strict etymological propriety of •" language, nor even in popular use, as in the... | |
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