 Wensleydale used to call the golden rule is right, viz., that we are to take the whole statute together, and construe it all together, giving the words their ordinary signification, unless when so applied they produce an inconsistency, or an absurdity...  A Commentary on the Interpretations of Statutes - Page 353by Gustav Adolf Endlich - 2005 - 871 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 1026 pages
...the testator presumably had in his mind, they produce an inconsistency with other parts of the will, or an absurdity or inconvenience so great as to convince the court that the words could not have been used in their proper signification, and to justify the court in putting on... | |
 | James Thomas Foard - Freight and freightage - 1880 - 678 pages
...the words employed in conjunction with its entire framework, if they would produce an inconsistency or inconvenience so great as to convince the court...in their ordinary signification, and to justify the adoption of some other signification, which, though less obvious, is s one which it is assumed the... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - Government paperwork - 1881 - 494 pages
...whole statute together, and construe it all together, giving the words their ordinary signification, unless when so applied they produce an inconsistency,...proper, is one which the Court thinks the words will bear " (c). TO what Although the language used both by Parke, B., extent it* i • i • " • prevails,... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1883 - 906 pages
...the whole statute together and construe it altogether, giving the words their ordinary signification, unless when so applied they produce an inconsistency...been to use them in their ordinary signification." (Uardcastle, Statutory Law, 3!(, citing River Wear Comrs. v. Adamsou, Law Вер., 2 App. Cas., 704.)... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1883 - 908 pages
...statute together and construe it altogether, giring the words their ordinary signification, unless wheii so applied they produce an inconsistency or an absurdity...been to use them in their ordinary signification." (Hardcastle, Statutory Law, 39, citing Itiver Wear Comrs. v. Adarason, Law Hep., '2 App. Cas., 7(>4.)... | |
 | Gustav Adolf Endlich - Law - 1888 - 970 pages
...to nullify the intention of the Legislature, was ignored in the const! uction.'" § 266. Caution a* to Application of Presumption against* Unreason, etc.—...proper, is one which the court thinks the words will bear.""* And " the absurdity, injustice, inconsistency, inconvenience and incongruity, which are, if... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...whole statute together and construe it all together, giving the words their ordinary signification, unless when so applied they produce an inconsistency...proper, is one which the court thinks the words will bear. In Allgood v. Blake (L. R, 8 Exch. 160; 42 Law J. Rep. Exch. 101), in the judgment of the Exchequer... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1898 - 452 pages
...whole statute together and construe it all together, giving the words their ordinary signification, unless when so applied they produce an inconsistency...been to use them in their ordinary signification.' In this instance, with great respect for the opinion of the Local Government Board, either view is... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1898 - 680 pages
...the testator presumably had in his mind, they produce an inconsistency with other parts of the will, or an absurdity or inconvenience so great as to convince the court that the words could not have been used in their proper signification. ... To one mind it may appear that an... | |
 | Edward Beal - Law - 1908 - 766 pages
...the testator presumably had in his mind, they produce an inconsistency with other parts of the will, or an absurdity or inconvenience so great as to convince the Court that the words could not have been used in their proper signification and to justify the Court in putting on... | |
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