 The intention of the legislature must be ascertained from the words of a statute, and not from any general inferences to be drawn from the nature of the objects dealt with by the statute.  Reports of Cases Determined in the Appeal and Chancery Divisions and ... - Page 19by New Brunswick. Supreme Court, Ward Chipman, Sir John Campbell Allen, Allen Otty Earle, Thomas Carleton Allen, George F. S. Berton, David Shank Kerr, George B. Seely, James Hannay, William Pugsley, Arthur I. Trueman, Esq George W. Allen, John L. Carleton (barrister-at-law), George Wheelock Burbidge, William Henry Harrison, Douglas King Hazen, Ernest Doiron - 1905Full view - About this book
 | 1908 - 1118 pages
...different sense, or there be good and substantial reasons for affixing a different meaning to them ; that the intention of the Legislature must be ascertained from the words of the statute, and not from any general inferences to be drawn from the nature of the objects dealt with... | |
 | Nova Scotia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 612 pages
...Stephenson v. Higginson, 3 HL C, G38. The intention of the Legislature must be ascertained from the vrords of a statute and not from any general inferences to...the nature of the objects dealt with by the statute. Fordyce v. Bridges, 1 HLC, 1. The Court knows nothing of the intention of an act except from the words... | |
 | India - 1887 - 956 pages
...has been ruled in England, that ' the intention of the Legislature must be ascertained from the words a Statute, and not from any general inferences to...nature of the objects dealt with by the Statute.' Fordyce v. Bridges, (1, HL Cas. 1 ; S..C. 11 Jnr. 157) ; and ' the court knows nothing of the intention... | |
 | Thomas Hodgins - 1890 - 336 pages
...Evidence, 115. The following are some of the cases on the construction of conflicting clauses in a statute. The intention of the Legislature must be ascertained...the nature of the objects dealt with by the statute: Fordyce v. Bridges, 1 HL Cas. 1, sc 11 Jur. 157. The language of a statute taken in its plain ordinary... | |
 | Robert Campbell - 1894 - 868 pages
...have been the intention of the legislature. But we must ascertain that intention from the words of the statute, and not from any general inferences to be...nature of the objects dealt with by the statute." I think, in accordance with these authorities, that in such a case as the present, where the words... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1901 - 1032 pages
...whole body of the law of statutory interpretation.2 For it is fundamental in our jurisprudence that the intention of the legislature must be ascertained...statute, and not from any general inferences to be derived from the nature of the subject with which it deals.' And in the case under consideration nothing... | |
 | Aughore Nath Ghose, Sarat Chandra Ghosh - 1904 - 536 pages
...may produce (a), and that they must ascertain the intention of the Legislature " from the words used, and not from any general inferences to be drawn from...the nature of the objects dealt with by the Statute" (b). But it should be borne in mind that, as observed by Sir Barnes Peacock, CJ, "the words of a Legislature... | |
 | Syed Ameer Ali, Sir John George Woodroffe - 1898 - 1646 pages
...Legislature in passing a law : but the Court must be bound by the words of the law judicially construed.1 The intention of the Legislature must be ascertained...drawn from the nature of the objects dealt with by the Statute.2 The Court knows nothing of the intention of an Act, except from the words in which it is... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1905 - 480 pages
...have been the intention of the legislature. But we must ascertain that intention from the words of the statute, and not from any general inferences to be...nature of the objects dealt with by the statute.' In determining what is the policy in an Act there is the same danger as in determining what is meant... | |
 | Francis Beaufort Palmer - 1905 - 724 pages
...have been the intention of the legislature. But we must ascertain that intention from the words of the statute, and not from any general inferences to be...nature of the objects dealt with by the statute." Per Lord Brougham, LC, Fonlyrr v. \ HLC 4. its enactment, save so far as a contrary intention is expressed... | |
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