 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.  Pittsburgh Reports - Page 71edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...according to the 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 expound those words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves do, in such a case, best declare... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...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...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
...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 are in...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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pages
...be construed according to the intent of the parliament which passed the act. If the words of the act are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no...natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves, do, in such a case, best declare the intention of the lawgiver. But if any doubt arise from the terms... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | 1857 - 356 pages
...doctrine is laid down by the authority of the 10 ci. and r., House of Lords : — " If the words of a statute are in themselves precise and unambiguous, then no more can be necessary than to expound these words in their natural and ordinary sense. The words themselves do in such a case best declare... | |
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