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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
G A Endlich |
ISBN: | 9781584775980 158477598X |
OCLC Number: | 183353053 |
Notes: | Originally published: Jersey City, N.J. : F.D. Linn & Co., 1888. "Founded on the treatise of Sir Peter Benson Maxwell." |
Description: | lxviii, 871 pages ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Literal interpretation -- External, circumstances, context, and acts in part materia -- Title, marginal notes, punctuation, preamble, schedule -- Presumptions arising from subject matter, and object of enactments as to language used -- Presumptions arising from scope and specific purpose of act, and as to evasion, and abuse to power -- Presumptions as to jurisdiction, government, excess of legislative functions and powers, violation of international laws, treatise, and constitutions -- Presumption against inconsistency : repeal by implication -- Presumption against repeal by implication : general, special and penal acts -- Presumption against unreason, inconvenience, injustice, and absurdity -- Presumption against construction premitting impairing of contracts, advantage from own wrong, and retrospective operation. |
Responsibility: | G.A. Endlich. |
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