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The writer of a preface...
Preamble
Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1977, p. 462.Preamble, introduction, preface; also the beginning of an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of its framers, and the mischiefs to be remedied; a good mean to find out the meaning of the statute, and as it were a key to open the understanding thereof, 1 Inst. 79 a; and see the Sussex Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4 Ex 299; Maxwell on Statutes; Hardcastle on Statutes; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Statute'; the effect of the cases being that as a general rule the preamble is to be resorted to only in case of ambiguity in the statute itself.Preamble, which in early (English) Acts (see, e.g., 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 18, the Act of Settlement, and the Irish Act, 1 Car. 1, c. 1), ...
Forespeaking
A prediction also a preface...
Forespeech
A preface...
Foreword
A preface...
Preamble
A introductory portion an introduction or preface as to a book document etc specifically the introductory part of a statute which states the reasons and intent of the law...
Preface
Something spoken as introductory to a discourse or written as introductory to a book or essay a proem an introduction or series of preliminary remarks...
Prefatorily
In a prefatory manner by way of preface...
Prefatory
Pertaining to or of the nature of a preface introductory to a book essay or discourse as prefatory remarks...
Proem
Preface introduction preliminary observations prelude...
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