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....ften a convenient device for reducing the verbiage or an enactment, but that does not mean that wherever it is used it has that effect; to deem means simply to judge or reach a conclusion about something, and the words "deem" and "deemed" when used in a statute thus simply state the effect or meaning which some matter or things has-the way in which it is to be adjudged; this need not import artifi....

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....eyond doubt a particular construction that might otherwise be uncertain. Sometimes it is used to give a comprehensive description that includes what is obvious, what is uncertain and what is, in the ordinary sense, impossible.' (Per Lord Radcliffe in St. Aubyn v. Attorney General:1952 AC 15 (HL), AC p. 53) 14. 'Deemed', as used in statutory definitions [is meant] 'to extend the denotation of the....

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....at something else (per Cave, J., in R. v. Norfolk County Court: (1891) 60 LJ QB 379). 'When a statute gives a definition and then adds that certain things shall be "deemed" to be covered by the definition, it matters not whether without that addition the definition would have covered them or not.' (Per Lord President Cooper in Ferguson v. McMillan : 1954 SLT 109 (Scot)) 16. Whether the word "d....