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1 Interpretation of the Code.
1
Standard of interpretation, what the text
The examples that occur are put only to explain,
not to restrain the purport of the text.
Let the text be taken for the standard. It is the
text that ought to be kept principally in view
in order to judge whether a given case fall within
the Law. The examples that are given are pr
designed only to explain not to restrain the purport
of the text. Let the text be the standard
of interpretation.
2.
Commentaries forbidden
If any comment should be written on
this code, with a view of printing out what is the sense thereof let no man pay any regard to it.
Such comment shall not be cited in any court
of Justice. In no manner whatsoever let it be
cited: neither by express nor by any circuitous
designation.
3.
Defects Emendations may be proposed.
But if any Judge [ or Advocate of the Crown or rather an
Attorney]
should in the discharge of his affair
[of their respective offices] should course of his practice
see occasion to remark
any thing in it that appears to him
erroneous in point of matter, or in point of stile defective redundant, or
obscure let him certify such observation to the
Legislative council together with the reasons for
his opinion, and the correction he would propose.
Moreover if it were any particular incident
in the course of any cause that occasioned
him to make the observation, let him give the particulars
of such incident.
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