CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10] — Page 387

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the offender,

and dismissed

the summons, on the ground of the work having been commenced prior to the 16th of April 1856, the date of the Ordinance, which they do not read retrospectively: That is to say, the Section Eleven of the Ordinance in the plain and obvious sense of the words (and according to the interpretation of the Supreme Court in the like cases of The Queen v. Mitchell and The Queen v. May) but in the non-natural sense of the adjudications arrived at by the defendants in those two cases, and which drew down the severe censure of the Chief Justice, when they brought under his notice by myself in the late proceedings by Mandamus.

That Section which justices do not read retrospectively is as follows:-

Every work whatsoever hereafter to be commenced, resumed, prosecuted, or finished in contravention

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the offender, and dismissed the summons, on the ground of the work having been commenced prior to the 16th of April 1856, the date of the Ordinance, which they do not read retrospectively: That is to say, the Section Eleven of the Ordinance in the plain and obvious sense of the words (and according to the interpretation of the Supreme Court in the like cases of The Queen v. Mitchell and The Queen v. May) but in the non-natural sense of the adjudications arrived at by the defendants in those two cases, and which drew down the severe censure of the Chief Justice, when they brought under his notice by myself in the late proceedings by Mandamus. That Section which justices do not read retrospectively is as follows:- Every work whatsoever hereafter to be commenced, resumed, prosecuted, or finished in contravention
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the offender,

and dismissed

the summons, on the ground. of the work having [been]

" commenced prior to the 16th

"

" of April 1856, the date of the "Ordinance, which they do " not read retrospectively : That

is to say, the if not read section

Eleven of the Ordinance in the plain and obvious sense of the words ( and according to the interpretation of

the Supreme Court in the lake cases of The Queen & Mitchell and The Queen & Mitchell

سلام

And May) but in the

0

Non-natural sense of the

385

adjudications arrived at by

the defendants in those two

cases, and which drew down

the severe censure

of the Chief

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were

Justive, when they brought

under his notice by myself in the late proceedings by

Mandamus.

the

That Section which

ہوگی

• justices do not read retrospectively is as follows: -

Every

very work.

wh whatsoever,

" hereafter to be Commenced,

" resumed, prosecuted, or " finished in contravention

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