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golden rule Rule for construing a statute: Mattison v Hart (1854) 14 CB 385. The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to unless that would lead to an absurdity or some repugnancy or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified so as to avoid such absurdity, repugnancy or inconsistency, but no further : |