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“Acts of Parliament are the works of the legislature, and the publication of them has always belonged to the King, as the Executive Part, and as the Head and Sovereign.”
“The language of statutes is peculiar, and not always that which a rigid grammarian would use; we must do what we can to construe them.”
“I do exceedingly commend the Judges that are curious and almost subtil, Astuti (which is the word used in the Proverbs of Solomon in a good sense, when it is to a good end) to invent reasons and means to make Acts, according to the just intent of the parties, and to avoid wrong and injury which by rigid rules might be wrought out of the Act.”
“In the absence of all authority, I can only look to the language of the statute.”
“A Court cannot give itself jurisdiction by misconstruing a document or statute.”
“A very ingenious attempt to drive a coach-and-four through this Act of Parliament.”
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