MARKETS AND FAIRS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 3 Interpretation.

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MARKETS AND FAIRS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 3

Interpretation.

3. The following words and expressions in both this and the special Act, and
any Act incorporated therewith, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to
them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such
construction; (that is to say,)Words importing the singular number shall
include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include
also the singular number:Words importing the masculine gender shall include
females:The word "person" shall include a corporation, whether aggregate or
sole:The word "lands" shall include messuages, lands, tenements and
hereditaments, or heritages, of any tenure:The word "lease" shall include a
missive of and an agreement for a lease:The expression "the market or fair"
shall mean the market or fair, and the works connected therewith, by the
special Act authorized to be constructed or regulated:The word "cart" shall
include waggon, and also any carriage used wholly or chiefly for the
conveyance of goods:The word "driver" shall include the carter or other person
having the care of any cart:The word "cattle" shall include horse, ass, mule,
ram, ewe, wether, lamb, goat, kid, or swine:The expression "the collector"
shall mean the person appointed by the undertakers to collect the stallages,
rents, or tolls authorized by the special Act, shall include the assistants of
the collector:The word "month" shall mean calendar month:The expression
"superior courts," when the matter submitted to the cognizance of the court
arises in ... Ireland, shall mean Her Majesty's superior courts of record at
... [Belfast] ...:The word "oath" shall include affirmation in the case of
Quakers, and any declaration lawfully substituted for an oath in the case of
any other persons allowed by law to make a declaration instead of taking an
oath:

Definition rep. by SLR 1980The word "justice" shall mean justice of the peace
acting for the place where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such
justice arises; and if such matter arise in respect of lands situated not
wholly in any one jurisdiction, shall mean a justice acting for the place
where any part of such lands shall be situated; and where any matter is
authorised or required to be done by two justices, the expression "two
justices" shall be understood to mean two or more justices assembled and
acting together:

Definition rep. by SLR 1980

And with respect to citing this Act, or any part thereof:

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MARKETS AND FAIRS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 3