... paper or similar substances. Therefore computer information was not a document. Whitley v Chappell (1868): By the act of Parliament it was an offence to personate any person to vote. In this case the defendant was accused of personating a dead person. The court held that he was not guilty because the dead person did not have the right to vote. In this case the Literal Rule was taken to certainty because the parliamentary obviously intended to make it illegal to personate living and dead people. Fisher v Bell (1972) Under an act of restricting for the sale of offensive weapons, it was an offence to 'offer for sale or sell' knifes with long blades and flick knifes in a shop window. Under the law of contract display in a shop window or on the shelves inside the shop is not an offer but an intention to threat. Using the Literal Rule ...

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