Sentences with phrase «interpretation using the statutes»

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For years, patent owners, especially those that have never «performed» the patent, used the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's broad interpretation of the patent venue statute to force infringement lawsuits into favorable jurisdictions.

Traditional interpretation statutes have given some examples of words in visible form, like engraving, that suggested the use of paper.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

As early as the seminal case of CUPE v NB Liquor, «expertise» has been used to justify deference on questions of home statute interpretation.

In Kazakewich v. Kazakewich, [1936] A.J. No. 10 (C.A.), the Alberta Court of Appeal summed up the ratios in Lambe, Severn and Edwards in this way at paragraph 86: I take it then that in approaching the interpretation of the pertinent sections of The B.N.A. Act with respect to the administration of justice, a Court should keep in mind that these sections are embodied in an Imperial statute to which the ordinary rules for the interpretation of statutes apply, that therefore the intention of the framers of this Imperial statute must be ascertained as at the date of the enactment by having regard to the words employed without extraneous aids to interpretation where the language is unambiguous, and that having regard however to the nature of the statute, a great constitutional charter, the widest and most liberal construction of the words used should be adopted with a view to giving effect to the whole scheme of Canadian union [Emphasis Added].

River logic can be used to build a case against an opponent, to ferret out the logical errors in new statutes, or to automate the interpretation of a particularly complex statute.

In her own decision, Côté J rejects the relevance of the British Columbia statute for interpreting Alberta's, and relies significantly on inconsistent language used within the Alberta statute to justify her interpretation of the wording of s 56 (3).

However, Tremeear's also includes the DNA Identification Act, the Firearms Act and the Interpretation Act, while Martin's opts for the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, a statute rarely used in Canada.