| Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1916 - 1030 páginas
...the most effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, and the intent of the legislators, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislature to enact it ; for, when this reason ceases, the law itself ought likewise to cease. The next assignment of error... | |
| Daniel Carey - 1918 - 124 páginas
...sentences employed. That which helps most in the discovery of the true meaning of a law is the reason of it, or the cause which moved the legislature to enact it. The popular, or received import of words, furnishes the general rule for the interpretation of statutes.... | |
| William Blackstone - 1922 - 1044 páginas
...who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. (55) *6iJ *5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering...dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it;(5&) or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. (57) For when this reason ceases, the... | |
| Henry Lamm - 1923 - 356 páginas
...to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of the law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which... | |
| Dormin J. Ettrude - 1924 - 118 páginas
...honorable rule of construction, laid down by Blackstone, that any instrument should be interpreted, "by considering the reason and spirit of it ; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. ... From this method of interpreting laws, by the reason of them, arises what... | |
| 1905 - 1502 páginas
...did not apply to a surgeon who bled a man that fell down in the street in a fit. Blackstone says that the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law is, when the words are dubious, by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause that moved... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1920 - 668 páginas
...The universal and most effectual way of discovering the true moaning 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" "Art. 20. The distinction of laws into odious laws and laws entitled... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1912 - 644 páginas
...statute. The "most effectual way" of discovering the true meaning of a law, says Civ. Code, art. 18, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which induced the Legislature to enact it; that is to say, by looking into the purpose of the statute. But... | |
| Minnesota. Supreme Court - 1866 - 510 páginas
...if literally understood, we must a little deviate from the received sense of them. * * * But lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are ambiguous, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislator to... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1982 - 374 páginas
...Terrorism and the Political Offense Exception to Extradition," l8 Col.J. Trans. L. 38l (l980) . -"' Cf. "[The] most universal and effectual way of discovering...reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it." l Blackstone, Commentaries 6l (8th ed. l778). -l544 exception,—/ none of... | |
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