 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1886 - 746 pages
...position, in reference to the rule of construction, is (1) that it is opposed to the well-recognized rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be construed strictly. See Sinnickson v. Johnston, ..' Harr. 144 ! Tlnsman v. Railroad Co., 2 Dutch. 167 ; Potter' x Dodd... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 pages
...chap. 2, sec. 2. No. 90. provisions, if it is generally beneficial, may be equitably construed. (a) Statutes in derogation of the common law are to be construed strictly. (6) SECTION 2. OF THE LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION. 89. In civil cases, a liberal interpretation must be adopted... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1855 - 830 pages
...part of the crops, unless his wife join in a deed, and have the same acknowledged and recorded, &c. Statutes in derogation of the common law, are to be construed strictly, and cannot be extended further than the express wording of the statute will warrant. Paine v. Ely et... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pages
...contracting with and conveying lands to each other."J To understand the meaning and present value of the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, we must keep in mind the feelings of our ancestors in regard to that system of... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1858 - 718 pages
...afterwards from sale under execution. It has been already remarked that the defendant's counsel insists, that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be construed strictly. And yet the rule, in some of the courts, has been sometimes modified on the one hand, and on the other... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - 1859 - 670 pages
...Construction of the Code. J 1125. Repeal of former statutes. 1126. Time when Code takes effect. § 1124. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed has no application to this Code. § 1125. All statutes, laws, and rules heretofore... | |
 | New York (State). Superior Court (New York), Joseph S. Bosworth - 1859 - 756 pages
...view to substantial justice between the parties, (Code, § 159). And again it is enacted (§ 467) that the rule, that statutes in derogation of the common law, are to be strictly construed, has no application to the code. Rowland v. Phalen. tation of its words when no... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1864 - 626 pages
...this, in all cases, as to instruments which are the foundation of the action. Hence, by the general rule, that statutes in derogation of the common law, are to be strictly construed; pleadings, where the statute has not prescribed differently, may be as at common... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code, New York (State). - 1865 - 896 pages
...this State there is no common law, in any case, where the law is declared by the five Codes. § 2032. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code. § 2033. All statutes, laws and rules heretofore... | |
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This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. 
