 I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning, uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the...  The Reports - Page 521edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 748 pages
...statute was intended to be a code of law relating to negotiable instruments," further observes: "I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1902 - 768 pages
...amendatory acts, it is said in Black. Intp. Laws, 365, quoting Lord Bromwell in a recent English case: natural meaning uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start in by inquiring how the law previously stood, and then assuming that it was probably... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...Exchange Act, which was intended to be a code of the law relating to negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1891 - 840 pages
...Exchange Act, which was intended to be a code of the law relating to negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | India - India - 1891 - 130 pages
...which is respectfully commended to the judges who have to interpret the AngloIndian codes : ' I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 748 pages
...Exchange Act, which was intended to be a code of the law relating to negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | Walter Charles Alan Ker - Commercial law - 1894 - 436 pages
...Act, 1882, but are equally applicable to the Sale of (roods Act. The noble Lord says : — " I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1895 - 824 pages
...Exchange Act, which was intended to be a code of the law relating to negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was [* 145]... | |
 | Great Britain - Maritime law - 1895 - 800 pages
...in its preamble to "codify " the law, he says : — " The proper course, in the first instance, is to examine the language of the statute, and to ask...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiringhow the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1896 - 530 pages
...Act, and the rule for its construction is thus stated by Lord Herschell : — " I think," says he, " the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine...considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably... | |
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