 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1620 pages
...Dunn v. Sublett, 14 Tex. 521. In the interpretation of statutes the constant endeavor of the courts is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. All rules for the construction of statutes are subservient to this intent. Richmond v. Sutherland,... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 724 pages
...seem to leave nothing for the construction of the courts of the state, whose whole object and duty is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. But it is contended that there is no where given an express power to sue; and that the commissioners... | |
 | Philippines. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1112 pages
...See MINES AND MINERALS, 3. 1. In the interpretation and construction of statutes, the primary rule is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the Legislature. People vs. Concepcion, p. 126. 2. The purpose of the Legislature in enacting section 35 of Act No.... | |
 | 1921 - 1544 pages
...accordance with the maxim, "enumeratio unius est exclusio al180 RE OKLAHOMA ( — 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... | |
 | Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Board - Employers' liability - 1919 - 606 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
...STATUTES <S=>1S3 — THE SPIRIT PREVAILS OVEB THE LETTER. The great arid fundamental rule in constrains statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the Legislature, and in :\ -.pertaining such intention It is the rule that the spirit or reason of the law will prevail... | |
 | 1922 - 1620 pages
...Dunn v. Sublett, 14 Tex. 521. In the interpretation of statutes the constant endeavor of the courts is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. All rules for the construction of statutes are subservient to this intent. Richmond v. Sutherland,... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Office of the Attorney General - 1914 - 428 pages
...Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 US, 457. The object of all statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature, and in discovering that intention resort may be had not only to the language and arrangement of the... | |
 | North Dakota - North Dakota - 1924 - 1208 pages
...Laws of 1913. It is well settled that in the interpretation and construction of statutes, the rule is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature; in other words, the intention of the legislature construes the law. This being true, it is well to... | |
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The fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. 
