 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...illustrious commentators on the Roman law.' When the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view ; and the intention is to be taken or presumed, according to wbat»is consonant to reason... | |
 | T. M. Lalor, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 712 pages
...antecedently." Independent of this authority, it is also a well settled rule in construing statutes, that the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt and the remedy in view, are to be considered : for, from these may be collected the intention of the lawgiver,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...lb'td. lib. 27. 1. 13. 2. Maledicta interprctatio qua corrodit viscera texli. — Lord Cukc. tcntion is to be collected from the context, from the occasion...necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the objects and the remedy in view ; and the intention is to be taken or presumed, according to what is... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1851 - 530 pages
...the words are not explicit, the intention of a statute is to be gathered as well from its context, as from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt and the Catherine N. Forrest agt. Edwin Forrest. objects and remedy in view (1 Kent's Com. 462). Such I understand... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1852 - 576 pages
...the law when the letter would lead to palpable injustice, contradiction and absurdity. When the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected...from the occasion and necessity of the law: from the necessity felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed according to what... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 788 pages
...construing statutes of doubtful meaning, courts are authorized to collect the intention of the legislature from the occasion and necessity of the law — from the mischief felt, and the objects and remedy in view — and the intention is to be taken, or presumed, according to what is... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...construing statutes ef doubtful meaning, Courts ar« authorized to collect the intention of the Legislators from the occasion and necessity of the law— from the mischief felt, and the objects and remedy in view — aod the intention is to bo taken or presumed, according to What is consonant... | |
 | Fisheries - 1853 - 328 pages
...terms." And he says further, that "When the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed, according to what is consonant to reason... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 774 pages
...of the terms." He further says, " when the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view ; and the intention is to be taken or presumed, according to what is consonant to reason... | |
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When the words are not explicit the intention is to be collected from the context ; from the occasion and necessity of the law; from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed according to what is consonant... 
