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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.
President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his first-year agenda – particularly on the border and birthright citizenship ...
Hiller grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from Texas Lutheran University in 1998. [1] [2]Hiller started performing improv comedy with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2001 where he was part of the improv teams People People, The Scam, Creep, Rumpleteaser and Police Chief Rumble.
And it was 1968, 1969, 1970.” “And [he] had a big beard and granny glasses and hair down to his shoulders. He looked like everybody,” the comedian joked, noting that Scorsese, 82, was an ...
Jolie got her pilot’s license in December 2004 and in early 2005, she bought the single-engine plane, a Cirrus SR22-G2. Jolie kept Maddox close while in the air, too: Her tail number contained ...
E. B. Chappell (1889–1968) B. A. 1916; LL. B. 1916 Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court [140] Richard G. Kopf (b. 1946) J. D. 1972 District judge of the District Court for the District of Nebraska [141] Robert Van Pelt (1897–1988) LL. B. 1922 District judge of the District Court for the District of Nebraska [142]