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However, use of the literal rule may defeat the intention of Parliament. For instance, in the case of Whiteley v. Chappel, [10] the court came to the reluctant conclusion that Whiteley could not be convicted of impersonating "any person entitled to vote" at an election, because the person he impersonated was dead. Using a literal construction ...
In England and Wales, the Poor Law Amendment Act 1851, section 3, made it an offence to impersonate a "person entitled to vote" at an election.In the case of Whiteley v Chappell (1868), the literal rule of statutory interpretation was employed to find that a dead person was not a "person entitled to vote" and consequently a person accused of this offence was acquitted.
The purposive approach (sometimes referred to as purposivism, [1] purposive construction, [2] purposive interpretation, [3] or the modern principle in construction) [4] is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common law courts interpret an enactment (a statute, part of a statute, or a clause of a constitution) within the context of the law's purpose.
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Warner/Chappell Music Inc. et al. v. Fullscreen Inc. et al. (13-cv-05472 [1]) was a case against multi-channel network Fullscreen, filed by the National Music Publishers Association on behalf of Warner/Chappell Music and 15 other music publishers, [2] which alleged that Fullscreen illegally profited from unlicensed cover videos on YouTube without paying any royalties to the rightful publishers ...
Here’s a full timeline of the behind-the-scenes drama of “It Ends with Us,” the film adaptation of the bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover. Jan. 26, 2023: Colleen Hoover announces Blake ...
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Chappell resigned from the department in 2022 after finding out that police Chief Richard Fuller planned to fire him because of the level of force he used against a man arrested on charges of ...