 ... sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of the legislature, which they have...  The Pacific Reporter - Page 731918Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 816 pages
...Circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the g Intent of the Legislature, which tin у have always taken according to the Necessity of the...and according to. that which is consonant to Reason am' good Discretion. In our Case then the Occasion and Necessity of the Act was to reform the Abuse... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 856 pages
...act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances; so that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 27., precludes any distress, action, or suit, after six years. Cap. 42. omits any mention... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 338 pages
...act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances ; so that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." RV Richards, in reply.—The cases relating to the construction of statutes need not be controverted.... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1848 - 612 pages
...comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances, so that they have been guided by the intent of the legislature, which...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." See also the case of Eyerton v. Stiidd (Plowden, 477-8), and the observations there upon the right... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...the law, according to Plowden, have ever been guided in the construction of statutes by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion.2 Thus, it sometimes happens, that, in a statute, the language of which may fairly... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1857 - 858 pages
...Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances, so that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." The same doctrine is to be found in Eyston v. Sludd, and the note appended to it, also in Plowden (b),... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 538 pages
...est exclusio alterius. The sages of the law (says Plowden, 205, b.) have been guided by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according...which is consonant to reason and good discretion. These special exemptions, in the act, of the officers of the courts, are idle and superfluous 290 and... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
...another,' or that the 'exception proves the rule.' " in the construction of statutes by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according to the necessity of the matter, arid according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion.1 Thus, it sometimes happens... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances, n to know that he waa doing an act that was wrong; this course is correct, accompanied with such The construction of an act of parliament, therefore, is the same in all courts (453); or if they differ,... | |
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