| Great Britain. Courts - 1816 - 816 pages
...Legislature,\vhich they have collected ' sometimes by considering the Cause and • Necessity of making the Act, sometimes by comparing one Part of the Act with another,...Circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the g Intent of the Legislature, which tin у have always taken according to the Necessity of the Matter,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1836 - 856 pages
...legislature, which they have collected sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another,...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 27., precludes any distress, action, or suit, after six years. Cap. 42. omits any mention... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1838 - 338 pages
...& Man. 3d3; 1 Har. & Woll. (*) 0 Rep. 18 ». «7. (I) Plowd. 200. (i) 10 Mod. 481. making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another,...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." RV Richards, in reply.—The cases relating to the construction of statutes need not be controverted.... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Erskine Perry, Henry Davison - 1841 - 734 pages
...sages of the law heretofore have construed statutes quite contrary to the letter in some appearance," " so that they have ever been guided by the intent of...legislature, which they have always taken according to VOL. 111. U the necessity of the matter and according to that which is consonant to reason and good... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1848 - 612 pages
...legislature, which they have collected sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another,...sometimes by foreign circumstances, so that they have been guided by the intent of the legislature, which they have always taken according to the necessity... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 pages
...the law, according to Plowden, have ever been guided in the construction of statutes by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion.2 Thus, it sometimes happens, that, in a statute, the language of which may fairly... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1857 - 858 pages
...legislature, which they have collected, sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another,...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." The same doctrine is to be found in Eyston v. Sludd, and the note appended to it, also in Plowden (b),... | |
| William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1859 - 538 pages
...est exclusio alterius. The sages of the law (says Plowden, 205, b.) have been guided by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according...which is consonant to reason and good discretion. These special exemptions, in the act, of the officers of the courts, are idle and superfluous 290 and... | |
| United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 pages
...which intent has been collected sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. (Id., 459.) Following this rule of ascertainment of intention, we should inquire into the evil which... | |
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