| Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1030 pages
...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 a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which... | |
| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1994 - 472 pages
...that way. For example, a prohibition against "drawing blood" need not be applied to doctors. Fifth, "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... | |
| William N. Eskridge - Law - 1994 - 460 pages
...recognized that gaps and ambiguities are inevitable in statutes. In resolving ambiguities, he urged that "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 ... [f]or when this... | |
| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1996 - 246 pages
...medical procedure. The absurdity of prohibiting the latter justified a narrower interpretation. But "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... | |
| St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - Law - 2000 - 3301 pages
...be referred to the 100/. or to the ISQl.fer annum. The court of king's bench having S. 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 ; or the cause which... | |
| David P. Currie - Law - 1997 - 356 pages
...in the Articles. 2 Annals at 1941, 1946-47, 1975. 8See id at 2002 (Rep. Gerry, quoting Blackstone): '"[T]he 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... | |
| William D. Popkin - Law - 1999 - 368 pages
...chain of interpretive criteria, Blackstone gets to equitable interpretation. He states that "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; or the cause which... | |
| Albert W. Alschuler - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 348 pages
...who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit."127 Blackstone observed that "the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law . . . is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislator... | |
| Guy Padula - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 214 pages
...Commentaries with Hamilton's argument in Federalist 81: Gerry — "[T]he most universal and true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it.""8 Hamilton — "[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers... | |
| Frederick Vaughan - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...five "signs the most natural and probable" that should guide the judge in his task. The fifth rule, "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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