| 1865 - 652 páginas
...interpret the sense of their formulas, very contrary to Sir William Blackstone's celebrated rule : " The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, where the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved... | |
| Charles O'Conor - 1866 - 52 páginas
...view of all their provisions taken together, the courts can see the legislature designed to provide. " The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law," says Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE, " is by considering the cause which moved the legislator to enact it ;... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1867 - 926 páginas
...the street with a fit. , *o. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of disco- [*61] rering the 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. ,(13) For when this reason ceases, the law itself ought likewise to cease with... | |
| William Giles Goddard - 1870 - 606 páginas
...will of the people, when required to decide whether the law is in conformity with the Constitution. " The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law," (says Judge Blackstone,) " when words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1871 - 756 páginas
...Puffendorf says : " 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." If the penalties given by the act of congress are cumulative, leaving the state law also in force,... | |
| William Blackstone - 1872 - 776 páginas
...with a fit. (19) Г*611 *^° ^u*' 1а8^У' ^е most universal and effectual way of discovering "• J the 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. (20) For when this reason ceases, the law itself ought likewise to cease with... | |
| India, Fendall Currie - 1872 - 1084 páginas
...literally understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them. Reason and Spirit. But the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of the law when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason or spirit of it, or the cause which... | |
| Thomas Frederick Simmons - 1873 - 572 páginas
...signification, if literally understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them. And lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. (5) IO45- Nor is this principle of interpretation confined to laws: — it... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1914 - 764 páginas
...words can be made by the application of arbitrary rules." (Const. Lim., 7 ed., 95). And Blackstone: "The most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it." (1 Comm., 61.) And Ihering, the German jurist: "Methods which attempt forcibly... | |
| United States. Congress - 738 páginas
...to wander beyond this orbit, where is lie to be , sense of them. " Reason and spirit nfthe law — The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, ...., „ „„ .„„..„, _ when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason the... | |
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