This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1931. 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 SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (LORD PASSFIELD) | They retain liberty to waste money and incur expenditure which is unnecessary and wasteful and uneconomical, and therefore injurious to 132 the community, except in connection with elections, and it is suggested that nothing but good can result from a reduction in the possible maximum of expenditure—which is sufficient to do all that is necessary—from 6d. |
| LORD PASSFIELD | The mere fact that I am against laissez faire does not make me in favour of protective duties, because I believe it to be a silly way of doing things and injurious to the welfare of the nations who have undertaken it. |
| LORD PASSFIELD | That is an evil, I think I am right in saying, not merely because it is a misrepresentation of the constituencies but also because, as I shall try to show, it really affects injuriously the whole basis of the position of the House of Commons in the Constitution of the country. |
| LORD JESSEL | The position could probably be met by promoting legislation extending Section 18 of the Housing Act, 1925, in its application to London, to enable unsatisfactory basement rooms used as living rooms to be considered injurious to health and, therefore, unfit for habitation. |
| THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (LORD PARMOOR) | Not only under our compensation law is it the general principle now to have a set-off in the case of lands taken but also in the case of lands injuriously affected. |
| LORD MARLEY | It is expressly provided in subsections (6) and (7) of this clause that any person who proves that his property is injuriously affected or that in relation to his property he suffers loss or injury may claim compensation. |
| THE EARL OF WEMYSS | It may be injurious to health. |
| THE EARL OF WEMYSS | The Surrey County Council do not wish to prevent dumping, but they say that they have a right, in protecting the amenities of the areas they administer and the comfort of the people who dwell therein, to take measures to prevent this dumping where it is injurious. |
| LORD PARMOOR | I am convinced that this Government—I do not say that there is any special virtue in it—as well as any Government representing Great Britain, will do all in their power to put an end to what is regarded by us all as an injurious and odious ownership and traffic. |
| LORD PASSFIELD | Too large a proportion of the total income of the nation is now being consumed in mere living, a good deal of it, I venture to think humbly, in ways which are positively injurious to living. |
Injurious weeds and the law | Why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law