River Wear Commissioners v Adamson and Others
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1876 |
Court | House of Lords |
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147 cases
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Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
...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......
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Manson v Duke of Westminster
...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
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Yarl's Wood Immigration Ltd and Others v Bedfordshire Police Authority
... ... 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
...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......