INDEX.

Words included in Appendix A. are not specified in the Index.

ABSOLUTE ENACTMENT

defined, 73

same as "imperative," 73

in enabling Act, 273-284

giving jurisdiction to Court, 281

same compared with directory, 281
as to marriage is, 277

ABSURDITY,

when equivalent to repugnancy, 103

construction causing, to be avoided, 8, 93, 100-104

ACT OF CONGRESS. See AMERICAN STATUTES.

ACT OF GOD,

when it will excuse breach of statute, 257

ACTION

for neglect of statutory duty, when it lies, 252-256
when taken away by statute, 323, 324

ADDING WORDS

to make sense, 121

limitations on, 129

AFFIRMATIVE ENACTMENT,

what is, 348

in enabling Act, 276-280

effect of, on common law, 324

may repeal prior enactment, 346-348

AGREEMENT. See PRIVATE ACT. CONTRACT.

ALDERNEY. See CHANNEL ISLANDS.

ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS,

rules for selecting from, 77

ALTERNATIVE PENALTIES,
rule as to, 325, 492

AMBIGUITY. See OBSCURITY.

AMERICAN STATUTES,

rules for construing, 11

authentication of, 43
mistakes in, 470

ANCIENT STATUTES

defined, 64

free construction of, 64

sometimes relieved against in equity, 86

ANNOYANCE. See NUISANCE.

ANOMALY. See ABSURDITY.

APPENDIX A.,

decisions on words collected in, 530-603

APPENDIX B.,

short and popular titles of Acts, 604

ASSENT,

words of, 41, 45

sufficiency of words of, 41

date of, indorsed on modern Acts, 41

not indorsed on ancient, 46

by Commission, 46

ASSIGNMENT

of statutory powers not allowed, 299

ASSURANCE,

private Acts resorted to as a mode of, 509

AUTHENTICATION OF STATUTES

discussed, 40-55

inquiry by judges, 41

as to words of assent, 45, 46

preambles, 47

United States rule, 43, 45

judicial notice, 40

its limits, 49

effect of irregularities in Parliament, 41

of private Acts, 42

of printed copies, 44

of original Acts, 51

of Statute Roll, 50

of vellum prints, 51

of text of statutes, 50-52

of English Acts in Ireland, 36

of Irish Acts in England, 36

of colonial laws, 37

of subordinate legislation, 37-39

BERWICK-ON-TWEED,

part of England, 443

BOROUGH

defined, 178

BREVIATE. See MEMORANDUM.

BRITISH COLUMBIA,

English law in, 459, note

BRITISH SHIPS,

effect of statutes on, 429

BRITISH STATUTES

construed somewhat differently from Scottish Acts, 5, 6

COLONIAL STATUTES

in conquered colonies, 6, 7, 453

adopting British Acts, 6, note, 459

rule as to statutes in pari materiâ applies to, 459
territorial effect of, 37, 456, 459