Practical Legislation Or The Composition And Language Of Acts Of Parliament Primary Source Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Practical Legislation: The Composition and Language of Acts of Parliament and Business Documents The following treatise was written many years ago for the instruction of the assistant draftsmen in the office of the Parliamentary Counsel. It was published by her Majesty's Stationery Office, and being now out of print, is republished, with the consent of the Government, with an introduction and with certain alterations required by recent legislation. Mr. Austin, no mean authority, writes in his work on Jurisprudence, "I will venture to affirm that what is commonly called the technical part of legislation is incomparably more difficult than what may be called the ethical. In other words it is far easier to conceive justly what would be useful law, than so to construct that same law that it may accomplish the design of the law giver." Mr. Gladstone expressed his opinion to me that a Bill was the very soul of legislation, and one of the most learned men perhaps in modern times, Bishop Westcott, the late Bishop of Durham, points out the essential requisite in drawing Acts of Parliament, and indeed in all other sorts of serious composition when he says, speaking of the benefits that he had derived from the tuition of Dr. Prince Lee, the famous master of King Edward's school at Birmingham: "If I were to select one endowment which I have found most precious to me in the whole work of life, I should select the absolute belief in the force of words which I gained through the strictest verbal criticism." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.