 | John James Heath Saint - 1896 - 562 pages
...legal incapacity, &c." By Lord Brougham's Act (13 & 14 Viet. o. 21), it is enacted (section 4), that "in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, unless the contrary be expressly provided." The Reform Act of 1832 (2 Will. IV. c. 45), gives (section... | |
 | Georgiana Hill - 1896 - 384 pages
...women of their constitutional right as owners of property, despite Lord Romilly's Act providing that "words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, unless the contrary be expressly provided." For more than thirty years after the Reform Act no attempt... | |
 | 1898 - 296 pages
...Acts Interpretation Act 1890, provides that words importing the singular shall be deemed and taken to include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary as to number is expressly provided. Then ngain, section 30 of the Companies Act 1896 provides that one or... | |
 | Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England), William Robert Credland - 1899 - 364 pages
...newspapers, pamphlets, pictures, engravings, maps, plans, and other articles of a like nature ; and all words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...to include the plural, and the plural the singular. 2. Every such library shall be open to the public gratuitously daily throughout the year, with the... | |
 | W. H. Lewis - 1899 - 888 pages
...shall mean any settlement within the Act. " Registrar " shall mean the Registrar-General. RR. 2-11. (b) Words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...to include the plural and the plural the singular. (c) Any terms and expressions defined by the Act shall, in these Rules, have the meanings assigned... | |
 | William Henry Dumsday - 1900 - 290 pages
...appears, the same meaning as in the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899. All words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...and the plural the singular, unless the contrary. as ta gender or number is expressly provided. GW KEKEWICH, Secretary. SCHEDULE I. Engagement to observe... | |
 | Helen Blackburn - 1902 - 376 pages
...of an Act for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament, viz. — ' Be it enacted that all words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided,' have passed the following resolutions : — ' That in the judgment of the overseers, they have no alternative... | |
 | Helen Blackburn - 1902 - 374 pages
...both sexes of man. "But there exists an Act of Parliament (13 & 14 Viet. c. 21) which provides that ' in all Acts words importing the masculine gender, shall be deemed and taken to include female, unless the contrary be expressly provided.' It is not sufficient that the contrary be implied... | |
 | George Edwardes Jones, J. C. G. Sykes - 1903 - 822 pages
...appears, the same meaning as in the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899. All words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided. GW KEKEWICH, Secretary. Note.—The Schedules contain the forms of engagements, certificates, and returns... | |
 | National Union of Teachers, Sir James Henry Yoxall, Ernest Gray - 1905 - 458 pages
...Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899. All words importing the masculine gender shall bo deemed and taken to include females, and the singular...contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided, GW KEKEWICH, Secretary. SCHEDULE I. Engagement to observe Regulations. [We, the undersigned, being... | |
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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... 
