| 1882 - 702 頁
...Company (8), " The more literal construction ought not to prevail if it is opposed to the intention of the Legislature as apparent by the statute, and...which that intention will be better effectuated." The duty of the Courts of law is undoubtedly to ascertain the intention of the Legislature, and to give... | |
| ernest hart - 1883 - 618 頁
...literal construction of a section of a statute ought not to prevail if it was ¡viposîd to the intention of the Legislature as apparent by the statute, and if the words were sufficiently flexible to «droit of some other construction by which that intention wttfd be better... | |
| Ontario. Court of Appeal, James Stewart Tupper, Richard Scougall Cassels - 1884 - 682 頁
...(1) to carry out what I could see was the intention of the Legislature, (2) if the words used were sufficiently flexible to admit of some other construction by which that intention could be better carried out. See Tlie Caledonian RW Co. v. The North British RW Co., LR 6 App. Cas.... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1886 - 918 頁
...construction ought not to prevail, if (as the court below has thought) it is opposed to the intention of the Legislature, as apparent by the statute ; and...which that intention will be better effectuated." Sir H. Giffard, QC in reply. — The object of this proviso, if it be limited to the effect of the... | |
| 1891 - 604 頁
...Selborne said "The more literal construction ought not to prevail if it is opposed to the intention of the legislature as apparent by the statute, and...construction by which that intention will be better effected." And the court of appsal held in Exparte Walton, 17 Ch., D. 746, that a statute may be construed... | |
| Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1891 - 836 頁
...of a section in a statute ought not to prevail if it is opposed to the intention of the legislature apparent by the statute ; and if the words are sufficiently flexible to admit of some other construction it is to be adopted to effectuate that intention.5 General words or clauses may be restricted to effectuate... | |
| 1892 - 948 頁
...Selborne, in Caledonian Ry. Co. v. North British Ry. Co., (LE 6 App. Gas. 114), " ought not to prevail if it is opposed to the intentions of the legislature,...other construction by which that intention will be betier effectuated." In my opinion, the Roman'catholics area class of persons who had, within the meaning... | |
| Henry Hardcastle - 1892 - 758 頁
...expressed by Lord Selborne : " The mere literal construction of a statute ought] not to prevail if it is opposed to the intentions of the ^ Legislature...of some other construction by which that intention can be better effectuated."(s) -' Thus, in Ruther v. Harris (1875), 1 Ex. D. 97, the question arose,... | |
| John Robison Cartwright - 1897 - 728 頁
...Selbome in Caledonian Railway Company v. North British Railway Comptituj (1), " ought not to prevail if it is opposed to the intentions of the Legislature...which that intention will be better effectuated." In my opinion the Roman Catholics are a class of persons who had, within the meaning of the statute,... | |
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