 | 1906 - 748 pages
...occasions, it seems to have been quite forgotten that 13 Viet. cap. 21, sec. 4 expressly enacts " That in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, unless the contrary is expressly provided." Yet in all recent legislation on this subject, Parliament... | |
 | Herman Cohen - 1906 - 320 pages
...of a fellow subject — 1 It was said jestingly even to have done this, when, in 1850, it enacted ' words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females ' (An Act for shortening the Language used in Acts of Parliament, c. 21, sec. 4.) 2O bigamy), the empire... | |
 | William Henry Dumsday - 1907 - 456 pages
...means the persons or person with whom any child is boarded-out under the provisions of this Order. All words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed...contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided. ARTICLE XVII. — This Order may be cited as "The Boarding-out Order, 1905." SCHEDULE. FORM No. i.... | |
 | Independent Labour Party (Great Britain) - 1908 - 406 pages
...occasions, it seems to have been quite forgotten that 13 Viet. cap. 21, sec. 4 expressly enacts "That in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, unless the contrary is expressly provided." Yet in all recent legislation on this subject, Parliament... | |
 | Edward Beal - 1908 - 766 pages
...634.) of section only. IV. Be it enacted, That in all Acts words importing the masculine Interpretation gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, and the singular to of certain include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary as uor<t* *" "ll to... | |
 | Queensland - 1911 - 682 pages
...IS&HVi'c. °- 21 s. 4. words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to Gender and include females and the singular to include the plural and the plural the numborsingular unless the contrary as to gender or number is expressly provided and the word " person"... | |
 | International Council of Women - 1912 - 216 pages
...arisen. The (Queensland) Acts Shortening Act, 1867 provides, like the corresponding English statute, that "words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females unless the contrary is expressly provided". A similar line of reasoning to that noted when referring... | |
 | 1913 - 756 pages
...whenever used in old legal documents denotes women as well as men.26 In 1850 it had been enacted that "in all Acts Words importing the Masculine Gender shall be deemed and taken to include Females."26 Accordingly the courts were now asked to determine whether under the provisions of the... | |
 | Agnes Edith Metcalfe - 1917 - 428 pages
...for Members of Parliament, in view of the fact that an Act of Parliament of 1850 had provided that " in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, unless the contrary be expressly provided." As no such express provision was to be found in the Act... | |
 | Homer Lawrence Morris - 1921 - 236 pages
...Electoral Reform in England and Wales, p. 476. 28 [234 the franchise upon women. This Act declared, " 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." 1 In order to test their rights... | |
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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... 
