Sentence examples for rule of construction from inspiring English sources

Paragraph 4 provides for a rule of construction that words such as "person" and all pronouns include both sexes.

The Ninth Amendment was designed to address this concern--it sets forth a rule of construction that prohibits government actors, including judges, from "den[ying] or disaparag[ing]" rights "retained by the people" on the grounds that they are not enumerated.

The Queen (1975), the Privy Council said that: The court in Hinds held that, as "a rule of construction applicable to constitutional instruments" adopting the Westminster system, the "absence of express words" did not prevent the judicial powers of the new state being exclusively exercised by the judicature".

He wrote, "Under this rule of construction the residual clause should be read to give effect to the terms 'seamen' and 'railroad employees,' and should itself be controlled and defined by reference to the enumerated categories of workers which are recited just before it; the interpretation of the clause pressed by respondent fails to produce these results".

Academics have submitted that the maxim does not state a rule of law, but is "at most a rule of construction" and in applying it to a statute "there, of course must be a consideration of the language of the whole enactment and of its purposes and objects".

In the numeric test the participant had to generate as many logical number sequences as possible, while trying to vary the rule of construction.

Courts have extensive "rules of construction," developed from rulings in cases over the years, that they say guide their reading of statutes.

That's a record, and Mr. Krozel had to break some rules of construction in order to make it.

Nor did Congress provide any rules of construction for the undefined terms in the ADA.

But the most significant language in the legislation are the rules of construction that essentially reaffirm the business judgment rule.

Recall from Section 1 that Congress failed to define several key terms and failed to provide rules of construction in the original Act.