| Francine Frank, Frank Anshen - 1983 - 144 pages
...subject when the British Parliament, in an attempt to shorten the language in its legislation, declared: "in all acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females..." (Bodine, p. 136). The importance of shortening the language of legislation can clearly be seen by Parliament's... | |
| Dennis E. Baron - 1986 - 264 pages
...provides that, in general, man is to include woman: Be it enacted, That in all Acts to be hereafter made Words importing the Masculine Gender shall be deemed...contrary as to Gender or Number is expressly provided. [British Sessions Papers (1850) 338.1.5] Gender and number are here treated together, as they commonly... | |
| Camille Roman, Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller - 1994 - 492 pages
...for woman and "wer" or "carl" for man), through an 1850 law of the British Parliament declaring that "in all acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females," up to current ambiguous and misleading usage (Frank and Anshen, 72-73). Dale Spender's 1980 Man Made... | |
| Stanley E. Porter - 1996 - 322 pages
...comprehensiveness became statutory: An Act for shortening the language used in acts of Parliament. . . in all acts words importing the masculine gender shall...plural the singular, unless the contrary as to gender and number is expressly provided. For indefinite number, either singular or plural will do; for indefinite... | |
| Sophia A. van Wingerden - 1999 - 260 pages
...Lord Brougham's Act was unambiguous on the interpretation of the word 'man,' because the Act read, '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.'92 Coleridge's first argument did... | |
| Karen M. Offen - 2000 - 582 pages
...Act (thanks to the pro-woman legal reformers Lord Brougham and Lord Romilly) addressing this issue: "In all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females unless the contrary ... is expressly provided," as had been the case in the 1832 Reform Act.12 This... | |
| Hilda L. Smith - 2002 - 252 pages
...of the Exchequer, Wherher, having regard to the Act 13 & 14 Viet., e. 21, s.4, whith enacts, "That in all Acts words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females," it is intended by the use of the word 'man' instead of the words 'male person' in Clause 3 of the Bill... | |
| Kirsten Malmkjær - 2002 - 696 pages
...is more important than gender agreement. Finally, in 1850, an Act of Parliament made it a law that 'words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females'. The second argument in favour of the use of male forms as generics states that we all know this to... | |
| Richard Joseph Wheeler Selleck - 2003 - 892 pages
...An Act passed in 1857, which interpreted the language used in parliamentary legislation, stated 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'. Under this interpretation, especially... | |
| Ray Barker, Christine Moorcroft - 2003 - 80 pages
...invented concept of the generic ‘he'. In the language used in acts of Parliament, the new law said, ‘words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females.' Although similar language in contracts and other legal documents subsequently helped reinforce this... | |
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