 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1870 - 840 pages
...provides that the county court shall appoint some suitable person to make sucli settlement. A word importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things. (Revised Statutes, sec. 12, chap. 21.) A. HARDING & TC BELL, For Appellants, CITED— Civil Code, sec.... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 388 pages
...resolution of Congress passed ¡subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine gender... | |
 | James Kirby - 1878 - 658 pages
...the Revised Statutes, or of nuy act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February 25, 1871, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; word« importing the masculine gender may be applied to females" etc., etc. Now as to '• immemorial... | |
 | United States - 1879 - 250 pages
...andfaithicsolutiou of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy .one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine gender... | |
 | Lewis Heyl - 1879 - 494 pages
...nearly as may be a single proposition of enactment. 688. SECTION 2. That in all acts hereafter passed words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular; words importing the masculine gender may... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1880 - 704 pages
...corporation," &c. It is provided by the Gen. Sts. c. 3, § 7, that in the construction of statutes words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Legislature, or repugnant... | |
 | 1897 - 1036 pages
...lands were granted subject to the adjustment applicable to two«roads. And the general rule is that "words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things, words Importing the plural number may include the singular," as provided In the first section of the... | |
 | George Leib Harrison - 1884 - 1134 pages
...subsequent R«v stat. or to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and i>e«niiu»ni. seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine gender... | |
 | George Leib Harrison - 1884 - 1134 pages
...subsequent B»». sut. of to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and i>««n'moiw. seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or tilings; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine... | |
 | 1898 - 1150 pages
...In the light of the rule provided in our statutes for their construction (Pub. St. c. 2, § 3), that "words Importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular," and in view of the history of the legislation... | |
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In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons... 
