 | Hawaii. Office of the Attorney General - 1846 - 710 páginas
...passage ; for they are among the motives. Blackstone says, vol. I, p. 61, " When the words are dubious, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislature to enact it."... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 páginas
...if literally understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them." 5. " But lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it." Mr. Justice Story, in his " Commentaries upon the Constitution," has a chapter... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 828 páginas
...last mentioned rule relates to the spirit and reason of the law, and the Judge is of opinion "that the most universal and effectual way of discovering...the cause which moved the Legislature to enact it. The causes which produced the constitution were an imperfect onion, want of public and private justice,... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1857 - 458 páginas
...if literally understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them. 5. " But lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it ; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it."* Now let these rules be applied to the question, and I think the result will... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 páginas
...understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them. (Vol. I., p. 60.) 5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering...by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the pause which moved the legislator to enact it (Vol. I., p. 61.) There are three points to be considered... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 páginas
...of them. (Vol. I., p. 60.) 5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering 4ho true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious,...reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. (Vol. I., p. 61.) There are three points to be considered in the construction... | |
 | John Potter Stockton - 1858 - 652 páginas
...says : " But that which helps us most in the discovery of the true meaning of the law, is the reason of it, or the cause which moved the legislature to enact it." The reason for the passage of the several acts-referred to was not because the company had exceeded... | |
 | Hawaii - 1859 - 576 páginas
...12. One of the most effectual ways of discovering the true ' meaning of a law, when its expressions are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which induced the Legislature to enact it. SECTION 13. When the words of a law are ambiguous, every construction... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 páginas
...the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. *5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it ; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it." For when this reason ceases, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.... | |
 | 1878 - 826 páginas
...of a command may be ascertained, if doubtful, by consulting the reason for its existence. Blackstone says, " The most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it ; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. For when this reason ceases, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.... | |
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that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. 5. But, lastly, the most universal and... 
