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Interpretation clause.
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22. In the construction of this Act and the schedules thereto annexed, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, words importing the singular number only shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number only shall include also the singular number; words importing the masculine gender only shall include females; the word “landlord” shall extend to any number of persons, or to a body or bodies politic, corporate, collegiate, aggregate or sole, or to any number of persons associated together as a company or partnership; the word “lands” shall extend to lands, houses, tenements, or hereditaments; and the term “assistant barrister” shall extend to the chairman of the sessions of the peace for the county of Dublin and to the recorder of the city of Dublin.
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