 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 sivua
...all doubtful matters, and where the expression is in general terms, statutes are to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the...presumed to make any alteration in the common law, farther or otherwise than the act expressly declares ; therefore, in all general matters, the law presumes... | |
 | 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 - 1909 - 790 sivua
...MILLER v. CITY OF DETROIT. 637 terms, statutes are to receive such a construction as may be agree, able to the rules of the common law in cases of that nature...presumed to make any alteration in the common law farther or otherwise than the act expressly declares. Therefore in all general matters the law presumes... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - 1864 - 724 sivua
...it is subject to the control and order of the common law, . . . 606 the statute is to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the common law, in cases of a similar nature, . . 606 where a common law word is used, we must resort to that law for its meaning,... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1865 - 516 sivua
...the expression is in general terms, they are to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the common law, in cases of that nature; for statutes...in the common law, further, or otherwise, than the statute does expressly declare: therefore, in all general matters, the law does not presume the act... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1865 - 726 sivua
...matters, and when the expression is in general terms, statutes Freethy v. Freethy. are to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the...for statutes are not presumed to make any alteration of the common law, further or otherwise than the act expressly declares ; therefore, in all general... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1876 - 696 sivua
...than the enacting words, f Where the expression is in general terms, statutes are to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the...presumed to make any alteration in the common law, beyond what is expressed in the statnte.J Argument to show that the statute in question, if it be construed... | |
 | Francis Turner - 1866 - 384 sivua
...not exist with respect to pawns of small value. "Statutes are not presumed to make any alteration of the Common Law, further or otherwise than the Act...therefore in all general matters the law presumes that the Act did not intend to make any alteration, for if Parliament had had that design, they would... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - 1869 - 740 sivua
...subject to the control and order of the common law — in other words, the statute is to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the common law, in cases of that nature. 6 Bacon, Abr. title Statute, 383, 384. 6. When a word is used in a statute, which has a well-known... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - 1869 - 738 sivua
...general, it is subject to the control and order of the common law, 606 the statute is to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the common law, in cases of a similar nature, . . 606 where a common-law word is used, we must resort to that law for its meaning,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 618 sivua
...rules of construction, to consider it as restricting, limiting, or abolishing any preexisting right. Statutes are not presumed to make any alteration in...the common law, further or otherwise than the act expressly declares. And, therefore, when the act is general, the law presumes it did not intend to... | |
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The general rule in the exposition of all acts of Parliament is this, that in all doubtful matters, and where the expression is in general terms, they are to receive such a construction as may be agreeable to the rules of the common law in cases of that... 
