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Heydon's Case (1584) 76 ER 637 is considered a landmark case: it was the first case to use what would come to be called the mischief rule of statutory interpretation.The mischief rule is more flexible than the golden or literal rule, in that the mischief rule requires judges to look over four tasks to ensure that gaps within the law are covered.
The rule was first set out in Heydon's Case [1584] 76 ER 637 3 CO REP 7a, [3] where the court held that four points should be taken into consideration: For the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discerned and considered: 1st.
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.
When it comes before this House for the first time it is, I believe, in accordance with long precedent - and particularly with the resolution of all the judges in Heydon's case (1584) 3 Co.Rep. 7a. - that your Lordships should give such construction as shall advance the remedy and that is what your Lordships do today.
Pages in category "1584 in English law" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Heydon's Case; L. List of acts of the Parliament of England ...
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The landmark decision in Heydon's Case introduces the mischief rule into the interpretation of statutes by the courts. [15] Publication of the cookbook A Booke of Cookry. 1585. 6 January – Walter Ralegh knighted. [16]
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