 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 816 pages
...receiving the Revenues : And so they have qualified ihe Rigour of the Word (pnaently) accord i ug- toi Reason, in such Manner as the Intent of the Makers...Sages of the. Law heretofore have construed Statutes quité .contrary to/the Letter in some Appearance, and those Statutes which • comprehend all Things... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1848 - 612 pages
...and HAYXS. ference to the mode of interpreting statutes, after referring to various other cases, " From which cases it appears that the sages of the...construed statutes quite contrary to the letter in some appearances, and those statutes which comprehend all things in the letter, they have expounded to extend... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 pages
...modern authorities, that the reason for the law in such cases shall prevail over its letter; that courts have construed statutes quite contrary to the letter in some appearance and that those statutes which comprehend all things in the letter Argument for the Defendanti. have been... | |
 | Upper Canada. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 824 pages
...expounded acts which were general in words, to be but particular where the intent was particular. * * The sages of the law heretofore have construed statutes...quite contrary to the letter in some appearance, and these statutes which comprehend all things in the letter, they have expounded to extend to but some... | |
 | E. O. Macdevitt - Ireland - 1884 - 588 pages
...particular where the intent •BS particular . . . ; and these statutes, which comprehend all thbgs in the letter they have expounded to extend but to some things, and those which include every person in the letter they have adjudged to reach some persons only." In the present case,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1166 pages
...his comments on Stradling v. Morgan, at page 205a, as the result of many cases to which he refers, that: "The sages of the law heretofore have construed...things in the letter, they have expounded to extend to but some things; and those which generally prohibit all people from doing such an act, they have... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1158 pages
...earlier English cases, presented as the result an accepted canon of construction in these words, viz.: "From which cases it appears that the sages of the...quite contrary to the letter in some appearance, and thosestatutes which comprehend all things in the letter they have expounded to extend but to some things,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1214 pages
...Is so important with reference to the question now before your lordships that I quote It once again: 'From which cases it appears that the sages of the...letter In some appearance, and those statutes which comprehended all things In the letter they have expounded to extend but to some things, and those which... | |
 | Canada - 1891 - 604 pages
...particular, where the intent was particular." Then after referring to several cases, the report proceeds, " From which cases it appears that the sages of the...things in the letter they have expounded to extend to but some things ; and those which generally prohibit people from doing such an act, they have interpreted... | |
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