River Wear Commissioners v Adamson and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1876
CourtHouse of Lords
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147 cases
  • Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 Octubre 2009
    ...the reason of the thing, the circumstances of this case do not support such an approach. 68 As for authority and principle, in River Wear Commissioners v. Adamson (1877) 2 App Cas 743, Lord Blackburn said, in a classic passage (at 764): “But it is to be borne in mind that the office of Judg......
  • Manson v Duke of Westminster
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Diciembre 1980
    ...which the judge accepted. 43 I return therefore to Lord Wensleydale's golden rule cited by Lord Blackburn in River Wear Commissioners v Adamson 1877 2 A. C., 764: "… that we are to take the whole statute together, and construe it all together, giving the words their ordinary signification, ......
  • Gayler and Pope Ltd v Davies & Son
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
  • Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 Septiembre 2008
    ... ... eg Ayr Harbour Trustees v OswaldELR (1883) 8 App Cas 623 ; Commissioners of Crown Lands v PageELR [1960] 2 QB 274 ... The duty of the police to ... general context of the statute, in the words of Lord Blackburn in River Wear Commissioners v AdamsonELR (1877) 2 App Cas 743 at 764, their ... ...
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  • A New Thing Under the Sun? The Interpretation of Contract and the ICS Decision
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , September 2008
    • 1 Septiembre 2008
    ...that Lord Blackburn was not speaking only of statutory interpretation when in River Wear Commissioners v Adamson in 1877 he said:44(1877) 2 App Cas 743 at My Lords, it is of great importance that those principles should be ascertained; and I shall therefore state, as precisely as I can, wha......

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