Factors (1842) (Imp)

And be it enacted, that in construing this Act the word ‘person’ shall be taken to designate a body corporate or company as well as an individual;

and that words in the singular number shall, when necessary to give effect to the intention of the said Act, import also the plural, and vice versâ; and words used in the masculine gender shall, when required, be taken to apply to a female as well as a male.