 | Edward Erastus Deacon, Edward Chitty, Great Britain. Court of Review - Bankruptcy - 1833 - 762 pages
...penalty, and that the words of a statute imposing a penalty must be construed strictly. In Heydon's case (a) Lord Coke says, there are four things to be considered...the remedy. And he adds, that the duty of all judges h to construe the statute, so as to repress the mischief, and advance the remedy. Now, the mischief... | |
 | John Raymond (of the Middle Temple.) - 1846 - 72 pages
...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 act ? 2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 798 pages
...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.... | |
 | George Bowyer - Ecclesiastical law - 1851 - 218 pages
...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 Act? " 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the Common Law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 612 pages
...four things are to be discerned and considered : VOL. XI. 23 The People agt. Berberrich and Toynbee. " 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 remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discussed and considered : " 1. What was the common law before the making of the act ? " 2. "What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved * So in New... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - Church management - 1857 - 704 pages
...for the interpretation of all Statutes : — " Four things are to be discerned and considered : — " 1 . What was the Common Law before the making of the Act * "2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 724 pages
...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 act? 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
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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 act? 2.... 
