used to the detriment of any person
[Vide Per Lord Cairns in walshall's Overseers vs. London and North Western
Railway
Commr.Of Income Tax-I,New Delhi vs Vatika Township P.Ltd on 15 September
taxpayer. Gould v.
Gould, 245 U. S. 151 , 153 ”
As Lord Cairns said many years ago in Partington
v. Attorney-General5: “As I understand
Commnr.,Central Excise & Customs, ... vs M/S. Larsen & Toubro Ltd on 20 August
Partington
v. A.G., (1869) LR 4 HL 100 at 122, Lord Cairns stated:
“If the person sought to be taxed comes within the letter
natural construction of its words.”’
In a classic passage Lord Cairns stated the principle thus:
‘If the person sought to be taxed comes within
taxpayer. Gould v.
Gould, 245 U. S. 151 , 153 ”
As Lord Cairns said many years ago in Partington
v. Attorney-General5: “As I understand
particular statute. The Principles of
Interpretation have been laid down by Lord
Cairns in Julius Vs. Lord Bishop of Oxford ... where Lord Cairns
enunciated Principles of Statutory
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Interpretation in the following words:-
“There may be something in the nature
of the thing empowered
Lord Bishop of Oxford [(1880) 5 AC 214] explained the
position. Earl Cairns, Lord Chancellor speaking for the judicial committee
observed dealing with the expression
mischief may accrue, or answer for the natural and anticipated
consequences.”
Lord Cairns, while agreeing with the aforesaid view of Blackburn, J.,
clarified that this