 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Beavan - Equity - 1856 - 714 pages
...PRINCIPAL AND AGENT, 1, 2, 4, 5. STATUTE. The general words of a statute are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless no sense or meaning can be put upon those words consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched ;... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Beavan - Equity - 1856 - 714 pages
...inclosure mentioned in the 92nd section. The general words of a statute are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless no sense or meaning cau be put upon those words consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 442 pages
...general words — General Inclostire Act. —The general words of a statute are not to bo so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless no sense or meaning can be put upou those words consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched ;... | |
 | Benjamin Russell - 1880 - 628 pages
...carefully to ascertain the intention of the Legislature. The general words of a statute are not to be construed so as to alter the previous policy of the law unless no sense or meaning can be put upon those words consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched. Mi-net... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1880 - 716 pages
...at the time : Logan v. Courtown (Earl.) 3 The general words of a Statute are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law unless no sense or meaning can be ill C. & F. 80. «1 II. L. CM. 1. 313 Beav. 22. Vol. IlL—P. & C. 57 1879. put upon those words consistently... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - Government paperwork - 1881 - 494 pages
...would have expressed it in the Act " (<j). " The general words of an Act are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless...intention of preserving the existing policy untouched " (h). For the same leason, it is presumed that the Legislature does not intend to "go against the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1370 pages
...SlaughterHouse Cases, 16 Wall. 36, 78, 21 L. Ed. 394. And "general words are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless no sense or meaning can be put upon them consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched." Lewis'... | |
 | Law - 1891 - 758 pages
...R, in Minet vs. Leman, 20 Beaven, 278, that " the general words of an Act are not to be cons" trued, as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless...intention of preserving the existing policy " untouched. This principle of construction, as a general " proposition, cannot be disputed." The case of Hawkins... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...implying an intent to depart from a settled statutory policy.4 General words are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless no sense or meaning can be put upon them consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched.5 i People... | |
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Act are not to be so construed as to alter the previous policy of the law, unless no sense or meaning can be applied to those words consistently with the intention of preserving the existing policy untouched. 
