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Home Dictionary Name: expositionParliamentary exposition
Parliamentary exposition, means the legislature sets out, in a later Act or Statute, the exposition of an earlier Act or, it does so by implication by giving a definite meaning to the same expression which was unexplained in earlier Act, Buttersby v. Kirk, (1836) Bing NC 584; Odgers Constriction of Deeds and Statutes, 1967, p. 345....
Statutory exposition
Statutory exposition. When the language of a statute is ambiguous, and any subsequent enactment involves a particular interpretation o the former Act, it is said to contain a statutory exposition of the former Act.1. The act or process of, interpreting a statute 2. Collectively, the principles developed by courts for interpreting statutes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1424....
A vinculo matrimonii
A vinculo matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the marriage was declared void, as having been absolutely unlawful ab initio, and the parties were therefore separated pro salute animarum (for the safety of their souls), the issue (if any) were illegitimate, and the parties could contract another marriage. This maxim directs the construction to be put upon Acts of Parliament, against the express letter of which the Courts will not sanction any interpretation, for the meaning of the Legislature cannot be so well explained as by its own direct words, since index animi sermo (language conveys the intention of the mind), and maledicta expositio qu' corrumpit textum (an exposition which corrupts the text is bad). [4 Rep. 35; Sussex Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl & F 143.]This maxim directs the construction to be put upon Acts of Parliament, against...
note
note 1 a : a written promise to pay a debt ;specif : promissory note in this entry bank note : a promissory note issued by a bank payable to bearer on demand but without interest and circulating as money cog·no·vit note [kÄ g-nō-vit-, kōg-] : a note in which the maker acknowledges the debt and authorizes the entry of judgment against him or her without notice or a hearing : a note containing a confession of judgment collateral note : a note secured esp. by a collateral mortgage and pledged to secure an obligation of which a hand note usually serves as evidence demand note : a note payable on demand compare time note in this entry floating rate note : a negotiable note that yields an indexed and periodically adjusted variable rate of interest called also floater hand note : a note for an obligation secured by a collateral note non-recourse note : a note whose satisfaction upon default may be obtained only out of the collateral securing it promisso...
Commentary
A series of comments or annotations esp a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work...
Commentation
The act or process of commenting or criticising exposition...
Declaration
The act of declaring or publicly announcing explicit asserting undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject proclamation exposition as the declaration of an opinion a declaration of war etc...
Elucidation
A making clear the act of elucidating or that which elucidates as an explanation an exposition an illustration as one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject...
Enarration
A detailed exposition relation...
Enucleation
The act of enucleating elucidation exposition...
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