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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-lords-costs-taxation-act-1849repealed/section-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/12-13/78",
  "legislation_title": "House of Lords Costs Taxation Act 1849(repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-lords-costs-taxation-act-1849repealed",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Construction of certain words in this Act.",
  "text": "In the construction of this Act the word “month” shall be taken to mean a calendar month; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons, matters, or things, as well as one person, matter, or thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person, matter, or thing, as well as several persons, matters, or things; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male; and the word “person” shall extend to any body politic, corporate, or collegiate, municipal, civil, or ecclesiastical, aggregate or sole, as well as an individual; . . . unless in any of the cases aforesaid it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/12-13/78/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:23.234502+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}