5 Geo. 4, c. 83, vagrant 308 159, 348 151 coveries 361 241, 153 87 c. 27, limitations 35, 69, 153 c. 42, limitations 13, 88, 201, 234, 297 c. 53, customs 179 c. 74, fines and re c. 98, usury c. 105, dower 24, 26 242, 247, 299 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 36, C. C. court 274 ON THE INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES. CHAPTER I. SECTION I.—INTRODUCTORY. STATUTE law is the will of the Legislature; and the object of all judicial interpretation of it is to determine what intention is either expressly or by implication conveyed by the language used, so far as it is necessary for the purpose of determining whether a particular case or state of facts which is presented to the interpreter falls within it. When the intention is expressed, the task is one simply of verbal construction; but when, as occasionally happens, the statute expresses no intention on a question to which it gives rise, and on which some intention must necessarily be imputed to the Legislature, the interpreter has to determine it by inference grounded on legal principles. The Act, for instance, which imposes a penalty, recoverable summarily, on every tradesman, labourer, and other person who carries on his worldly B |