How have courts interpreted the meaning of a word in English by statute?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hayes, In re, 1931 CanLII 211 (SK QB):
Earl of Halsbury, L.C. in Igoe v. Shann [1903] A.C. 320, at 323, 72 L.J.K.B. 693, says: As a matter of general principle of construction I deprecate going outside the language of the statute to find some meaning for the words other than that which the words themselves in their ordinary and natural construction suggest.
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