Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
dormant legislative intent
See LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
legislative intent
The design or plan that the legislature had at the time of enacting a statute. - Also termed intention of the legislature; intent of the legislature; congressional intent; parliamentary intent. "The intention of the legislature is a common but very slippery phrase, which, popularly understood, may signify anything from intention embodied in positive enactment to speculative opinion as to what the legislature probably would have meant, although there has been an omission to enact it. In a court of law or equity, what the legislature intended to be done or not to be done can only be legitimately ascertained from that which it has chosen to enact, either in express words or by reasonable and necessary implication." Soloman v. Salomon & Co., [1897] A.C. 22, at 38 (as quoted in Rupert Cross, Statutory Interpretation 36-37 (1976)).
legislative intent.
See LEGISLATIVE INTENT.