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Prefatory

Pertaining to or of the nature of a preface introductory to a book essay or discourse as prefatory remarks...

Initiatory

Suitable for an introduction or beginning introductory prefatory as an initiatory step...

Introductory

Serving to introduce something else leading to the main subject or business preliminary prefatory as introductory proceedings an introductory discourse...

Prefatorily

In a prefatory manner by way of preface...

Introductory previous preceding the main discourse or business prefatory as preliminary observations to a discourse or book preliminary articles to a treaty preliminary measures preliminary examinations...

Proemial

Introductory prefatory preliminary...

Prolegomenary

Of the nature of a prolegomenon preliminary introductory prefatory...

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), ...

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