This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1927. 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 |
|---|---|
| THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY) | We have seen, in repeated acts of legislation, that although we maintain, and properly maintain, the rights of property of individuals, yet we do not allow them to go to such an extent as to be injurious to others. |
| LORD ARNOLD | Those words mean that the opinion of able, very experienced and not extreme trade union leaders like Mr. Thomas, Mr. Clynes and Mr. Gosling, who spend all their life in trade union matters, is all wrong when they say that the Bill will be highly injurious to the interests of the trade unions and the workers. |
| LORD ARNOLD | A great deal of this Bill will be injurious to unions, but it does not interfere in their internal affairs in the same way as this clause. |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR | All that is purely observation of a general character, and does not in the least interfere with the view which I ventured to express on Second Reading that where you have an illegal strike, a General Strike, or some other form of strike illegal by law, which may affect the funds of a large body of men and may be injurious to the State, that is exactly the kind of case where in other instances the Attorney-General as representing the State can and should be allowed to take proceedings to restrain them. |
| THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (THE EARL OF BALFOUR) | What he said was perfectly true with regard to tar made from coal, but I understand that Trinidad tar does not contain the noxious substances which have such disastrous effects upon fish life, and I confess that I think that a local authority has no excuse for using, in the making and upkeep of our roads, any form of tar that is injurious to fish life when it is in a position to obtain tar Which has none of those noxious properties. |
| LORD DANESFORT | If you put down a substance which may be injurious to dogs, cats, fowls and so on, how are you to take reasonable precautions to prevent dogs, cats or fowls having access to it? |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR | It is for your Lordships to judge, but my deliberate opinion is that the clause is not half so strong, not a quarter so strong, as that in the Bill, and that to adopt it instead of ours would be most injurious to the Bill, both as to the prospects of passing it in a reasonable time and as to its value if and when passed. |
| LORD ARNOLD | A vital point in all this matter and one which the Government, I am sorry to say, has hitherto entirely failed to apprehend, is the injurious effect which the action of Great Britain, in going back upon the Geneva Convention of 1921, is 186 bound to have upon future international meetings at Geneva held for the purpose of raising labour conditions. |
| LORD ABERCONWAY | They are not injuriously affected. |
| LORD ARNOLD | First, let me point out that the supporters of this theory which finds its place in the Motion of the noble Earl devote practically all their attention to the alleged injurious effects of high direct taxation. |
| LORD ARNOLD | If this were the occasion it would be easy to show that in so far as there is anything in this theory about the injurious effects of high taxation upon industry—as a matter of fact there is very little in it—looking at our present taxation, some of our present indirect taxes are more injurious to trade than direct taxation. |
| LORD ARNOLD | If this were the occasion it would be easy to show that in so far as there is anything in this theory about the injurious effects of high taxation upon industry—as a matter of fact there is very little in it—looking at our present taxation, some of our present indirect taxes are more injurious to trade than direct taxation. |
| LORD CLINTON | For example:— "No by-laws made under this section shall take away or injuriously affect any estate, interest, right of common, or other right of a profitable or beneficial nature in, over, or affecting any land, except with the consent of the person entitled there to." I know some of your Lordships are very much interested in the question of common rights. |
| LORD CLINTON | That proviso reads:— "No by-laws made under this section shall take away or injuriously affect any estate, interest, right of common …." Is not that sufficient to meet my noble friend's point? |
| THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD | Few realise how injurious to the chances of the Constitution has been the burden of Provincial contributions, chilling, depressing and rendering almost impossible the adequate discharge of those Social Services that might have done so much to recommend the novel and difficult Constitution. |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR (VISCOUNT CAVE) | They are genuine hardships injurious to trade and industry in this country, and hardships which a reasonable landlord will not impose. |
| VISCOUNT GAGE | It is a statutory obligation on local authorities to have their districts inspected from time to time with a view to ascertaining whether any dwelling houses therein are in a state so dangerous or so injurious to health that they are unfit for human habitation. |
| LORD CHARNWOOD | I do want to press that the landlord ought to be able to object to an improvement, not merely on the ground that it is financially injurious to himself, but on the ground that, by execution or design, it will utterly destroy the amenities of the neighbourhood, or that a building, say, on some vacant land, may be placed in a way which will greatly detract from the convenience and benefit of the whole neighbourhood. |
| THE EARL OF MIDLETON | There are instances in which they have been used most injuriously against the intention both of the authors of those Acts and those who supported them. |
| EARL BUXTON | In the first place, as I endeavoured to show in the early part of my speech, the Government ignore the most important and vital proposals and recommendations of the Committee and the Bill is, therefore, one-sided, incomplete, injurious to trade and unjust to contributors. |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR | : My Lords, I am afraid this Amendment is something more than unnecessary and that it might really prove mischievous and injurious to landlords. |
| THE LORD CHANCELLOR | If those words were inserted the Courts might feel bound to try to give some meaning to the clause, and it is possible that they might infer from the language of the clause that it was intended to give a charge for compensation, and in that case it might have an effect adverse or injurious to the landlord's interest. |
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