 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 552 pages
...common law, or the provision of our own interpretation Act, which requires that Acts of Parliament shall receive " such fair, large and " liberal construction...according to their true intent, meaning, and " spirit." I have dwelt upon this branch of the case, not, in truth, because I think it susceptible of difficulty,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 554 pages
...common law, or the provision of our own interpretation Act, which requires that Acts of Parliament shall receive " such fair, large and " liberal construction...according to their true intent, meaning, and " spirit." I have dwelt upon this branch of the case, not, in truth, because I think it susceptible of difficulty,... | |
 | Robert Alexander Harrison - Municipal corporations - 1867 - 720 pages
...to prevent or punish the doing of anything which it deems contrary to the public good, the act is to receive such fair, large and liberal construction...as will best ensure the attainment of the object of its passing, and accord with its true intent, meaning and spirit. (Con. Stat. Can., cap. 5, s. 6, sub-s.... | |
 | Law - 1868 - 654 pages
...mere letter, and in the language of our Interpretation Act, Con. Stat. of Canada, we must give it " such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation as will best ensure the attainment ol the object of the act and of such provision or enactment, according to their true intent, meaning... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 778 pages
...and in the language of our Interpretation Act, 31 Vic., c. 1, thirtyninthly, p. 64, we must give it such fair, large, and liberal construction and interpretation...according to their true intent, meaning, and spirit. What the section intended was, that any depositions made in the United States, before proper authority,... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 762 pages
...Interpretation Act, 31 Vic., c. 1, thirtylinthly, p. 64, we must give it such fair, large, and Jberal construction and interpretation as will best ensure...according to their true intent, meaning, and spirit. What the section intended was, that any depositions niade in the United States, before proper authority,... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 384 pages
...think, in so doing, I obey the directions of our Interpretation Act in giving the words before me, " such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation...of the object of the Act, and of such provision or ennctinent according to their true intent, meaning, and spirit " I observe in the Election Act of 1868-0... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1872 - 762 pages
...64, we must give it such fair, large, and liberal construction and interpretation as will best enrare the attainment of the object of the Act, and of such...according to their true intent, meaning, and spirit. What the section intended was, that any depositions made in the United States, before proper authority,... | |
 | Robert Alexander Harrison - Liquor laws - 1874 - 1262 pages
...Abbott, CJ, in The K'mg v. Hall, 1 B. & C. 136 ; approved in The Lion, LR 2 PC 525. ) Every Act should receive such fair, large and liberal construction...best ensure the attainment of the object of the Act according to its true intent, meaning and spirit. (Interpretation Act, Qnt. 31 Vic. cap. 1, s. 7, sub.... | |
 | Law - 1918 - 502 pages
...limited in its operation to his wife and children. I think, under such circumstances, that the act should receive 'such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation as will best insure the attainment of its object.' No decision has been cited to me on the point, in which the facts... | |
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... such fair, large, and liberal construction and interpretation as will best ensure the attainment of the object of the Act and of such provision or enactment according to its true intent, meaning, and spirit. 
