 | Hawaii. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 828 pages
...370. "One of the most effectual ways of discovering the true meaning of the law, when its expressions are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which induced the legislature to enact it." Sec. 12, RL The facts disclosed by the evidence in this... | |
 | Edwin Charles Clark - Jurisprudence - 1914 - 456 pages
...instances various proper means of genuine Interpretation, among which " the most universal and effectual is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it." Under the words "reason and spirit " it is clear that he has... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are duhious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it ; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. For when this reason ceases, the law itself ought likewise... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1922 - 1044 pages
...(55) *6iJ *5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it;(5&) or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. (57) For when this reason ceases, the... | |
 | Henry Lamm - Law - 1923 - 356 pages
...to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of the law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1502 pages
...did not apply to a surgeon who bled a man that fell down in the street in a fit. Blackstone says that the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law is, when the words are dubious, by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause that... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 668 pages
...The universal and most effectual way of discovering the true moaning of a law, when its expressions are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it. or the cause which induced the Legislature to enact it" "Art. 20. The distinction of laws into odious laws and laws... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 644 pages
...statute. The "most effectual way" of discovering the true meaning of a law, says Civ. Code, art. 18, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which induced the Legislature to enact it; that is to say, by looking into the purpose of the statute.... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 510 pages
...if literally understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them. * * * But lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are ambiguous, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Extradition - 1982 - 374 pages
...Terrorism and the Political Offense Exception to Extradition," l8 Col.J. Trans. L. 38l (l980) . -"' Cf. "[The] most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which... | |
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that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. 5. But, lastly, the most universal and... 
