Statutes Quotes

“Statutes of limitations”

“It is safest to keep to the Statute.”

“A statute cannot alter by reason of time, but the common law may.”

“We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.”

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“A Court cannot give itself jurisdiction by misconstruing a document or statute.”

“In the absence of all authority, I can only look to the language of the statute.”

“A very ingenious attempt to drive a coach-and-four through this Act of Parliament.”

“Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet, C.J., Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1614), Ld. Hob. Rep. 341.”

“People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language.”

“There is a great difference between the Purview of an Act of Parliament, and a Proviso in an Act of Parliament.”

“All Acts of Parliament are to be expounded according to the true meaning to be collected from the words of 'em.”

“Inconvenience arising from the operation of an Act of Parliament can be no ground of argument in a Court of law.”

“We must give effect to the plain language of the legislature, according to the fair interpretation of the words of the Act.”

“Our limited function is not to say what the legislature meant, but to ascertain what the legislature has said that it meant.”

“The language of statutes is peculiar, and not always that which a rigid grammarian would use; we must do what we can to construe them.”

“Bind not the new statutes so to the common law, that their words increased for the King's advantage, should be deprived of their force.”

“However we might wish to provide for every hardship that may occur, we are bound to put that construction on the Act that the legislature intended.”

“It is the duty of Judges, not to supply the defects of the legislature by providing a remedy, but simply to construe the provisions of the statute it has enacted.”