 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1290 pages
...where an act is ambiguous or of doubtful meaning. The object of all interpretation and construction of statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. 3U Cyc. 1106; 26 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 597. 9. In order to ascertain the legislative intent it is proper... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1552 pages
...think that in accordance with the maxim, "enumeratio unius est exclusio al( — Okla. — , tenus," the statute should be construed as excluding money...capital, surplus, and undivided profits," taxable personal property not included within that assessment will escape taxation; therefore a construction... | |
 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1919 - 852 pages
...paramount to form." Lewis' Sutherland on Stat. Const. (2d Ed.) § 352. The object of construing a statute is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the Legislature. It is to be gathered from the necessity or reason for the enactment and the meaning of the words, enlarged... | |
 | Charles K. Morganroth - Law - 1920 - 472 pages
...compensation under such circumstances. Compensation is based upon dependency and not relationship. "The fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascertain...and give effect to the intention of the legislature. This intention, however, must be the intention as expressed in the statute, where the meaning of the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1096 pages
...County. April 21, 1920.) 1. STATUTES <®=»1S3 — THE SPIRIT PREVAILS OVER THE LETTEB. The great and fundamental rule In construing statutes is to ascertain...and give effect to the intention of the Legislature, and In r. •certaining such intention it is the rule that the spirit or reason of the law will prevail... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 680 pages
...— language permissive in form may be construed as imperative. As the object of the construction of statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature, language permissive in form will be construed as imperative where a consideration of the whole statute... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 786 pages
...2, 3, 7-9, 13, 19, 20. SCHOOLS. VENUE, 1-3. WILLS, 1, 2, 6, 8. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, 1, 4. 1. The fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascertain...and give effect to the intention of the legislature. ,State ex rel. Time Ins. Co. v. Superior Court, 269 2. The general rule is that the spirit or reason... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1922 - 980 pages
...qualifications on the manner of use of the property employed in the carrier service. Id. (493). The fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascertain...and give effect to the intention of the legislature. This intention, however, must be gathered from the language as expressed in the stalute, and where... | |
 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1919 - 808 pages
...paramount to form." Lewis' Sutherland on Stat. Const. (2d Ed.) § 352. The object of construing a statute is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the Legislature. It is to be gathered from the necessity or reason for the enactment and the meaning of the words, enlarged... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 872 pages
...v. Hackmann. justice, or where the provision was inserted through inadvertence." [36 Cyc. 1108.] II. "The great fundamental rule in construing statutes...and give effect to the intention of the Legislature. This intention, however, must be the intention as expressed in the statute, and where the meaning of... | |
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The fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. 
