 ... 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
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 562 pages
...; 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 agrees with Coke, who somewhere says that "he who knoweth not the reason of the law, knoweth not... | |
 | Railroad law - 1905 - 970 pages
...statute, 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 agrees with Coke, who somewhere says that "he who knoweth not the reason of the law knoweth not... | |
 | Australia. High Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1322 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." Now, the words " any action brought in respect of any trespass to land " are words of the most general... | |
 | Edward Beal - Law - 1908 - 766 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...necessity of the matter, and according to that which is consonnnt to reason and good discretion.' " —Hatckim v. Gathcrcole (ISS-'O, 6 DM & G. 1, at p. 21;... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1022 pages
...sometimes by comparing one part of the Act with another, and sometimes by foreign circum[ *218 ] stances. So *that they have ever been guided by the intent...which is consonant to reason and good discretion." Sir P. Dwarris's very useful book abounds in examples, and surely the exposition of a statute, that... | |
 | Charles Howard McIlwain - Constitutional history - 1910 - 444 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...according to that which is consonant to Reason and good Discretion."1 In another similar case the Chief Justice said, "that, which Law and Reason allows, shall... | |
 | Charles Howard McIlwain - Constitutional history - 1910 - 470 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...according to that which is consonant to Reason and good Discretion."1 In another similar case the Chief Justice said, "that, which Law and Reason allows, shall... | |
 | Colorado. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 692 pages
...is not of universal application in the construction of statutes. The legislative intention is to be taken ' according to the necessity of the matter,...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion. It is simply a rule for arriving at legislative intent, and is to discreetly guide,... | |
 | Colorado. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 664 pages
...is not of universal application in the construction of statutes. The legislative intention is to be taken according to the necessity of the matter, and...according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion." Williams v. The People, 26 Colo. 272, was a prosecution for perjury in which the... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 1162 pages
...comparing one part of the Act with another; and sometimes by foreign (ie, extraneous) circumstances, so that they have ever been guided by the intent of the legislature, which tbey have always taken according to the necessity of the matter, and according to that which is consonant... | |
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