In what circumstances will a word be interpreted in its ordinary, grammatical sense?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Quinn Enterprises Ltd. v. Andros Enterprises Ltd., 1983 CanLII 2123 (SK QB):
In the construction of statutes, words must be interpreted in their ordinary, grammatical sense unless that would lead to absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the statute, in which event the sense of the word may be modified to avoid the difficulty (see Grey v. Pearson (1857), 10 E.R. 1216).
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