This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1916. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
This survey forms part of the evidence for the correct legal interpretation of injurious weeds in the Weeds Act 1959. See also why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law.
| Speaker | Context |
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| LORD COURTNEY OF PENWITH | Now the conscientious objector is sometimes said to be a person who must be connected with some religious body, and I believe that among the vagaries of some of the Tribunals who have had their case under consideration this has been put to them," If you are not a Quaker or not a Christadelphian, you cannot have a conscientious objection." The man who comes forward and says, "I am a Socialist, and my theory of civic duty compels me to believe that war is a thing so injurious to the State that in no circumstances can I enter into the support of it or take a part 39 in its conduct," is as truly conscientious, I am sure, as if he had affirmed himself to be a Quaker or a Christadelphian. |
| VISCOUNT PEEL | I will take what is, I admit, a small example which we had the other day of the Land Taxes, which were obviously injurious to this country. |
| THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (LORD ISLINGTON) | The clause was fully discussed in the Committee, and was considered to be objectionable mainly on the ground that it might have an injurious effect on the purity of administration in India. |
| Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT | It is injurious to the nation. |
| Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT | It is injurious to business. |
| Mr. DUKE | What is intended briefly is this: That the plans of the proposed buildings shall be submitted to the city architect of Dublin, a gentleman of great eminence in his profession, that he 757 shall have powers with regard to the external design and with regard to certain other matters to this effect, that if the external design in his view is such as would be injurious to the amenity of the street, whether on account of the proposed external design, the proposed line of frontage, or the materials proposed to be used, he may make requisitions. |
| Mr. DUKE | In the Department's opinion, if the sale and slaughter of these immature pigs were stopped, such a course would react injuriously upon pig-breeding generally in Ireland. |
| Mr. DILLON | We say it is injurious for the peace and harmony of Ireland that they should act." Was ever a Board called into existence for such a purpose as that? |
| Mr. CAUTLEY | asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Control Department whether, having regard to the scarcity of cane sugar and the difficulty of the poor in obtaining even a limited quantity of it, and considering that glucose is a variety of sugar which from a physiological point of view is as nutritious and as easily digested as cane sugar, that glucose can be prepared in large quantities and cheaply by the several factories already making it in this coun- 1108 try or their extensions, and that the sole objection to it as a sweetening agent is that it is not sweet enough, but this can easily be overcome by the addition of a suitable quantity of saccharine, he will encourage or undertake the manufacture of glucose and the addition of saccharine thereto as a means of providing for the people a nutritious sugar, cheap, and in no respect injurious, and thereby solving the sugar difficulty? |
| Mr. DILLON | It will be within the power of the Minister of Food, if he acts imprudently or harshly or in an irritating fashion, to create an amount of public disturbance probably unnecessarily, and also an amount of public discontent which would be extremely injurious to the successful conduct of the War, and might lead to very unfortunate consequences. |
| Sir G. CAVE | If the Bill is to be passed it would be unwise and injurious to the Bill to pass such an Amendment as this. |
| Sir J. SIMON | I am sure everybody hopes, now that the right hon. Gentleman is in this high position of authority, that he will be able to point out with even greater force how injurious to the public interest such procedure is, and how necessary it is that it should be stopped at once. |
| Sir G. CAVE | The first part of it provides for what is well known in legal phraseology as compensation for loss by severance of land from other land occupied therewith which is thereby injuriously affected. |
| Sir G. CAVE | The central part of the Amendment provides for compensation for injurious effects. |
| Sir G. CAVE | If someone will move to leave out from the Amendment the words "and in determining such compensation regard may be had to any loss suffered by the temporary severance of the land occupied from other land occupied therewith immediately before the time when possession was taken by the occupying Department or by reason of such other land being otherwise injuriously affected by the exercise of the powers conferred by this Section," we will accept the Amendment. |
| LORD ELPHINSTONE | This Special Committee at once issued a circular-letter to all controlled establishments, pointing out the injurious effect upon production of working excessive overtime and engaging upon continuous labour involving Sunday work. |
| THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (LORD ISLINGTON) | I should think the noble and gallant Lord himself will realise that at this particular juncture, when the campaign is actually proceeding, it would be in the highest degree injurious to the national welfare that anything of a detailed character in regard to either the past or the present should be made public. |
| THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (LORD ISLINGTON) | I did not—and I hope your Lordships will concur with this—even imply on that occasion anything in the nature of a refusal of publication as being injurious to the public interest, though I am afraid in certain quarters outside the House it has been inferred that my remarks tended in that direction. |
| THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (LORD ISLINGTON) | What I did characterise as being injurious to the public welfare was the disclosure, whilst the campaign was actually in progress, of anything in the nature of detailed information regarding the composition of the Force in Mesopotamia, the general policy of the campaign, or the alleged lack of preparation with Which the Government have been charged. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LINCOLNSHIRE | With great respect I put it to the noble Lord opposite whether he did not rather overstate his case when he told us about the Regulations having an injurious effect on food production. |
| THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE | All they do is to prevent gross breaches of confidence 874 which at a time like this can scarcely fail to be most injurious to public interests. |
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