Former MP for Liverpool Edge Hill
Mr Watson Rutherford is a former MP for Liverpool Edge Hill.
Former MP for Liverpool Edge Hill
Entered the House of Commons on 20 January 1903 — unknown
Left the House of Commons on 15 February 1923 — unknown
Also represented Liverpool, West Derby
I make no apology for intervening in the Debate on this question, though it is quite true it has occupied all the time since the ordinary business commenced. It is an exceedingly important matter. If the business community are to understand, that between now and the Report stage, the whole of this Clause will be recast and will be put in an entirely different shape, then, of course, it is...
I think this is a most extraordinary Amendment. Clause 78 purports to repeal amongst other things, Section 14 of the Conveyancing Act of 1881, and then we are to have added at the end of the repeal Clause that the repeal is not to operate in certain conditions. I think, if it had been intrended—and it probably is intended—that where there has been a transfer of a leasehold to a limited...
I was not arguing against the meaning and effect of what was clearly intended to be done, but against the very confusing way in which this Amendment was expressed.
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