| James Kent - 1832 - 590 sivua
...of Modestinus, Scsevola, Paulus, and Ulpianus. the most illustrious commentators on the Roman law.' When the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view ; and the intention... | |
| T. M. Lalor, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1833 - 712 sivua
...antecedently." Independent of this authority, it is also a well settled rule in construing statutes, that the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt and the remedy in view, are to be considered : for, from these may be collected the intention of the lawgiver,... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1851 - 530 sivua
...the words are not explicit, the intention of a statute is to be gathered as well from its context, as from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt and the Catherine N. Forrest agt. Edwin Forrest. objects and remedy in view (1 Kent's Com. 462). Such I understand... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1852 - 576 sivua
...strict letter of the law when the letter would lead to palpable injustice, contradiction and absurdity. When the words are not explicit, the intention is...from the occasion and necessity of the law: from the necessity felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention is to be taken or presumed according to what... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1920 - 788 sivua
...construing statutes of doubtful meaning, courts are authorized to collect the intention of the legislature from the occasion and necessity of the law — from the mischief felt, and the objects and remedy in view — and the intention is to be taken, or presumed, according to what is consonant to... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1854 - 650 sivua
...construing statutes ef doubtful meaning, Courts ar« authorized to collect the intention of the Legislators from the occasion and necessity of the law— from the mischief felt, and the objects and remedy in view — aod the intention is to bo taken or presumed, according to What is consonant to... | |
| 1853 - 328 sivua
...accurately ascertained, will always prevail over the literal sense of the terms." And he says further, that "When the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view; and the intention... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 774 sivua
...accurately ascertained, will always prevail over the literal sense of the terms." He further says, " when the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the remedy in view ; and the intention... | |
| Catherine Norton Sinclair Forrest - 1863 - 688 sivua
...the words are not explicit, the intention of a statute is to be gathered as well from its context as from the occasion and necessity of the law, from the mischief felt, and the objects and remedy in view. (1 Kent's Com., 462.) Such I understand to be the sound maxims of interpretation established... | |
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