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The mischief rule is a rule of statutory interpretation designed to assist a Court in identifying the proper construction of statutory wording according to the original intention of the legislators. The rule requires the Court to identify the relevant pre-Act common law and from that the “mischief” or injustice/defect that the Act was designed to remedy.
