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The following words and expressions, in both this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)
Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number:
Words importing the masculine gender shall include females:
The word “person” shall include a corporation, whether aggregate or sole:
The word “lands” shall include messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of any tenure:
The word “street” shall extend to and include any road, square, court, alley, and thoroughfare or public passage within the limits of the special Act:
The word “month” shall mean calendar month:
The expression “superior courts” shall mean Her Majesty’s superior courts of record at Westminster or Dublin, as the case may require . . . F1
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[F3 T he word “county” shall include riding or other division of a county having a separate commission of the peace, and shall also include county of a city or county of a town:]
The word “justice” shall mean justice of the peace acting for the [F4county, city, borough, liberty,] cinque port, [F4or other] place where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such justice arises; [F4and where any matter shall be authorized or required to be done by two justices, the expression “two justices” shall be understood to mean two or more justices met and acting together:]
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The word “cattle” shall include horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats, and swine.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
F2Definition repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
F3Definition repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. I
F4Words repealed (N.I.) by virtue of Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. I
F5Definition of “quarter sessions” repealed (E.W.) by Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 11 Pt. IV and (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. I
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