Golden rule Definition | Legal Glossary | LexisNexis (2024)

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The golden rule is a rule of statutory interpretation and allows the courts to assume that Parliament intended that its legislative provision have a wider definition than its literal meaning, and so the grammatical and ordinary sense of a word can be modified to avoid the inconsistency or absurdity created by an application of the literal rule, but no farther.

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