 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1870 - 748 pages
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be discerned and considered: " 1,- What was the common law before the making of the act t "2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide Î " 3. What remedy... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discussed and considered : " 1. What was the common law before the making of the act? " 2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? "3. What remedy the Parlament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 978 pages
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be discussed and considered — 1. What was the common law before the making of the Act ? 2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 840 pages
...of the common law," says the same authority,4 " four things are to be discerned and considered: i. What was the common law before the making of the act...defect against which the common law did not provide ? 2 US Rev. Stats., Revision of 1873-74, § 4966. * Ante, this vol. p. 242. 3. What remedy the parliament... | |
 | Victoria. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...of the law, and in the language of the leading authority on this subject," to discern and consider what was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide, and what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth":... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...the Barons of the Exchequer are especially applicable as the guide in the case under consideration : 1. " What was the common law before the making of the act? " 2. "What was the mischief aud defect for which the commou law did not provide?" 3. " What remedy the Parliament hath resolved... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 776 pages
...In the construction of statutes the following rules are to be Kaster & Farweli v Fease. observed : "1. What was the common law before the making of the act? 2., What what was the mischief for which the common law did not provide? 3. What remedy has the legislature... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 946 pages
...of all statutes in general, fmir things are to be discerned and considered: 1. What was the commim law before the making of the act; 2. What was the mischief and 'Meet airainst which the common law did not provide ; 3. What remedy the legislature hath resolved... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...to be discerned and considered: First. What was the common law before the making of the act? Second. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide? Third. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 962 pages
...be discerned and considered : First, What was the common law before the making of the act ? Second, What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide f Third, What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the Commonwealth... | |
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That for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discerned and considered. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act? 2.... 
