 | Patrick Fleming Evans - 1883 - 138 pages
...s. 3 of the Act of 1870, " ' Person' includes a corporation." In "Person." nil Acts of Parliament, " words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided ; '' 13 jc 14 Viet. c. 21, s. 4. General Orders. 2. In England, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pages
...there is good ground for saying that it is technically correct." Section 4 of that Act provides that in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females unless the contrary as to gender is expressly provided. The Law Times infers that " his " in the new... | |
 | Peter Hay Cameron - 1884 - 556 pages
...all Acts of Parliament, it has to be kept in view that words importing the masculine gender must be taken to include females, and the singular to include...contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided (13 Viet c. 21). (65.) (66.) (67.) STEPS TO BE TAKEN ON OCCURRENCE OF A DEATH. 131. First thing to... | |
 | Peter Hay Cameron - 1884 - 556 pages
...all Acts of Parliament, it has to be kept in view that words importing the masculine gender must be taken to include females, and the singular to include...singular, unless the contrary as to gender or number is expresslv provided (13 Viet. c. 21). (65.) (66.) (67.) .-,O 5. \ s ,. 3 " & 156 INTESTATE SUCCESSION... | |
 | John Frederick Haynes - 1884 - 736 pages
...14 VICT. c. 21. Meaning of 4. Words importing the masculine gender shall be taken to stotS"sw°rdsin include females, and the singular to include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary is expressly provided. The word " month " shall mean calendar month unless words be added showing a... | |
 | 1918 - 1218 pages
...did not enfranchise women. Although by the statute 13 & 14 Viet., c. 21, par. 4. it was enacted that 'in all acts, words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females.' the word 'man,' in the ordinary and popular sense of words, is used in contradistinction to the word... | |
 | Thomas Cyprian Williams - 1884 - 662 pages
...the language used in Acts of Parliament. This enactment runs as follows : — " Be it enacted that in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include Masculine females, and the singular to include the plural, and the gen er' plural the singular, unless... | |
 | Theodore Stanton - 1884 - 522 pages
...that, whatever the wording of the statute and of Lord Brougham's act, whereby in all acts of Parliament words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include the feminine unless the contrary is expressly provided, it was clearly the intention of Parliament,... | |
 | 1885 - 666 pages
...passed to regulate the interpretation of future Acts of Parliament, and it provided by section 4 that " in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females." The result of the argument which has been addressed to us would be that in every Act which has been... | |
 | Sir William Reynell Anson - 1886 - 408 pages
...male person ' for this purpose, and in the mean time an Act (13 & 14 Viet. c. 21) had provided that 'in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females unless the contrary is expressly provided.' But the Court of Common Pleas held firstly that since the... | |
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in all Acts, words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, and the singular to include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary as to gender and number is expressly provided... 
