 Intention of the Legislature' is a common but very slippery phrase, which popularly understood may signify anything from intention embodied in positive enactment to speculative opinion as to what the Legislature probably would have meant, although there...  Journal of the Institute of Bankers - Page 46by Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 752 pages
...the Legislature intended to be done or not to be done can only be legitimately ascertained from what it has chosen to enact, either in express words, or by reasonable and necessary implication." Bead in their grammatical and ordinary sense, the words of this document seem to me. clearly and without... | |
 | Frederick Stroud - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 820 pages
...INTENTION. — "'Intention of the Legislature,' is a common but very slippery phrase ; which, popularly understood, may signify anything from Intention embodied...express words or by REASONABLE and NECESSARY Implication " (per Ld Watson, Re Salomon, 1897, AC 38; 66 LJ Ch. 44). Cp, PUBLIC POLICY. A like rule obtains as... | |
 | Malcolm M. D'Arcy-Irvine - 1905 - 708 pages
...what the Legislature intended to be " done or not to be done can only be legitimately ascer" tained from that which it has chosen to enact, either in " express words or by reasonable and necessary impli" cation." " The question for our consideration," says Cotton, LJ in Reid v. Reid (1880) (31 Ch.... | |
 | Australia. High Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 956 pages
...omission to enact orN.SW it. In a Court of law or equity, what the legislature intended to O'Connor J. De done or not to be done can only be legitimately ascertained...words or by reasonable and necessary implication." The only guide, therefore, as to'what the legislature intended is the words it has used ; the first... | |
 | Australia. High Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 962 pages
...Co. (1): — "'Intention of the Legislature' is a common but very slippery phrase, which, popularly understood, may signify anything from intention embodied...words or by reasonable and necessary implication." Where words are unequivocal as they stand, we have no right to enlarge their meaning, or to treat other... | |
 | Edward Beal - Law - 1908 - 766 pages
...enactment to speculative opinion as to what the legislature probably would have meant, although tbere has been an omission to enact it. In a Court of law...words or by reasonable and necessary implication." — Salomon v. Salomon $ Co., [1897] AC 22, at p. 38 ; t>6 LJ Ch. 35, at p. 44, Lord Watson. " Turner,... | |
 | Australia. High Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 870 pages
...enact it. In a Court of Law or Equity, what the legislature intended to be done or not to be LTI,. done can only be legitimately ascertained from that...words or by reasonable and necessary implication." But where are the words in our Constitution which expressly or by necessary implication exclude from... | |
 | Francis Beaufort Palmer - Corporation law - 1911 - 834 pages
...Watson said : — •" What the legislature intended to be done or not to be done can only be legally ascertained from that which it has chosen to enact,...words or by reasonable and necessary implication." "I know," said Lord Hersehell in the same case, " of no means of ascertaining what is the intent and... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 560 pages
...1910. I do not think this is so. One is not entitled to speculate as to what the Legislature meant. " In a court of law or equity, what the Legislature...express words or by reasonable and necessary implication " (per Lord Watson in Salomon v. Salomon & Co., [1897] AC 22 at p. 38). Now it is not enacted in the... | |
 | Law - 1919 - 628 pages
...pointed out : " 'Intention of the Legislature' is a common but very slippery phrase, which popularly understood may signify anything from intention embodied...words or by reasonable and necessary implication." — Lord Wats.on in Salomon v. Salomon &• Co. [1897] AC 22. 38. On the other hand, the court must... | |
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