 Exchequer that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law) four things are to be discerned and considered: (1) What was the common law before the making of the...  The Manitoba Reports - Page 2891902Full view - About this book
 | Edward Erastus Deacon, Edward Chitty, Great Britain. Court of Review - Bankruptcy - 1833 - 762 pages
...there are four things to be considered in the interpretation of statutes, be they penal or beneficial. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act. 2, What was the mischief and defect, which the common law did not provide for. 3. What remedy the legislature has provided ; and 4. The... | |
 | Edward Erastus Deacon - Bankruptcy - 1833 - 774 pages
...there are four things to be considered in the interpretation of statutes, be they penal or beneficial. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act. 2. What was the mischief and defect, which the common law did not provide for. 3. What remedy the legislature has provided ; and 4. The... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 586 pages
...are to be discerned and considered: 1st. What was the common law before the making of the acts : 2nd. What was the mischief and defect, for which the common law did not provide: 3rd. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed, to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | Equity - 1841 - 692 pages
...discerned and considered: — First, what was the common law before the " making of the act : — Second, what was the mischief and defect for "which the common law did not provide : — Third, what remedy the - Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the "... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...four points are to be considered : 1st, what was the common law before the making of the act; 2ndly, what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; 3rdly, what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | John Raymond (of the Middle Temple.) - 1846 - 72 pages
...penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law)," four things are to be discerned and considered : 1 . What was the common law before...? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth ? 4. The true reason of the remedy ? And then the... | |
 | Denis Caulfield Heron, Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell, William Neilson Hancock - Catholics - 1846 - 140 pages
...interpretation of all statutes, " Four things are " to be discerned and considered : 1. What was the com" mon law before the making of the act ? 2. What was " the...3. What remedy the parliament hath " resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the common" wealth ? And 4. The true reason of the remedy ? And "... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 798 pages
...general, be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be considered , 1, What was the common law before the...making of the act ; 2, What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide; 3, What is the remedy ; 4, The true reason of the remedy.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...four points are to be considered : 1st, what was the common law before the making of the act ; 2ndly, what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; 3rdlv, what remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
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