 | William Knox Wigram - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1881 - 500 pages
...The Bishop of Oxford, Ho. Lo., Mar. 23, 1880. 'The words, "it shall be lawful," or their equivalent, are plain and unambiguous. They are words merely making...authority to do. They confer a faculty or power, and do not of themselves do more. But there may be something in the nature of the thing empowered to be... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1882 - 738 pages
...words " it shall If lawful " in a statute do not of themselves do more than confer a faculty or power making that legal and possible which there would otherwise be no right or authority to do. But if the object for which the power is conferred be for the purpose of enforcing a right, there may... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 940 pages
...square. RobertioHi v. Day. 641 2. The words in a statute " it shall be lawful" of themselves merely make that legal and possible which there would, otherwise, be no right or authority to do. Their natural meaning is permissive and enabling only. 3. But there may be circumstances which may... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...object of the provisions." The words in a statute, " it shall be lawful," of themselves, merely make that legal and possible which there would otherwise be no right or authority to do. Their natural meaning is permissive and enabling only. But there may be circumstances which may couple... | |
 | William Paley, Walter Henry Macnamara - Criminal procedure - 1892 - 692 pages
...qualificatory (i), and 33 LJ, CP 121. Tho words in a statute "it shall be lawful" of themselves merely make that legal and possible which there would, otherwise, be no right or authority to do. Their natural meaning is jiermissive or enabling only. But there may be circumstances which may couple... | |
 | Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 748 pages
...different statutes or in different parts of the same statute. I cannot think that this is correct. The words ' it shall be lawful ' are not equivocal. They are plain and unambiguous. They confer a faculty or power, and they do not of themselves do more than convey a faculty or power. But... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1895 - 1072 pages
...just referred to;1 discussing the effect of the words " it shall be lawful," he thus discriminates: " The words ' it shall be lawful ' are not equivocal....and possible which there would otherwise be no right and authority to do. They confer a faculty or power, and they do not of themselves do more than confer... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1895 - 952 pages
..."They are words," as was said by Lord CAIRUS in Julius v. Lord Bis7top of Oxford, 5 Appeal Cases, 214, "merely making that legal and possible which there would otherwise be no power, right or authority to do. They confer a faculty or power, and they do not of themselves do more... | |
 | Criminal law - 1899 - 704 pages
...Barlow, Salk. 609, Skin. 370, Carth. 293. The words " it shall be lawful " used in a statute merely make that legal and possible which there would otherwise be no right or authority to do, and their natural meaning is permissive and enabling only ; so when Note — Cont1nued. the Church... | |
 | Aughore Nath Ghose, Sarat Chandra Ghosh - Law - 1904 - 536 pages
...observed : " it was held that the words in a statute ' it shall be lawful,' of themselves merely make that legal and possible which there would otherwise be no right or authority to do ; [and] that their natural meaning is permissive and enabling only." Strachey, J., in Re Aranvayal... | |
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it shall be lawful ' are not equivocal. They are plain and unambiguous. They are words merely making that legal and possible which there would otherwise be no right or authority to do. They confer a faculty or power and they do not themselves do more... 
