... sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of the legislature, which they have... The Pacific Reporter - Page 731918Full view - About this book
| United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1887 - 752 pages
...the law, according to Plowden, have ever been guided in the construction of statutes by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion. Thus it sometimes happens that in a statute, the language of which may fairly comprehend... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1887 - 748 pages
...guided in the construction cf statutes by the intention'of the legislature, which they have alwajs taken according to the necessity of the matter, and...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion. mentioned by way of example merely, and not as exclnding others of a similar nature.... | |
| Great Britain. Courts, William Bernard Megone - Commercial law - 1891 - 468 pages
...Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." Neither the cause nor necessity for the Bills of Sale Acts, 1854 and 1878, nor a comparison of the... | |
| Canada - 1891 - 604 pages
...collected sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances, so that they have ever been guided by the intent of...taken according to the necessity of the matter, and that which is consonant to reason and good discretion. " The eminent American jurist Chancellor Kent,... | |
| Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 758 pages
...Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." This rule is well illustrated by the decision arrived at in The Dowse (1870), LK 3 Ad. & E. 135, with... | |
| Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1895 - 934 pages
...Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." If the Judicature Acts are looked at by the light of such principles as are here indicated, I cannot... | |
| James Kirby - Law - 1897 - 452 pages
...collected sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances, so that they have ever been guided by the intent of...which is consonant to reason and good discretion.' The same doctrine is to be found in Egetton v. Studd, same reports, p. 465, and the note appended to... | |
| John Robison Cartwright - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 728 pages
...Act, sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances. So that they have ever been guided by the intent of...they have always taken according to the necessity <>f the matter, and according to that which is consonant to reason aud good discretion." The eminent... | |
| Design protection - 1898 - 852 pages
...making the Act, sometimes by foreign " circumstances " (thereby meaning extraneous circumstances), " so that they have " ever been guided by the intent...necessity of the matter, and according to that which is 25 consonant to reason and good discretion ; " and he adds : " We have therefore to consider not merely... | |
| Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Glenroy Kreider - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 840 pages
...the law, according to Plowden, have ever been guided in the construction of statutes by the intention of the legislature, which they have always taken according...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion." Broom, Legal Maxims, p. *664. The legislation of the state shows that the legislature... | |
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