 | Edward Erastus Deacon - 1833 - 774 páginas
...penalty, and that the words of a statute imposing a penalty must be construed strictly. In Hey don's ease (a) Lord Coke says, there are four things to be considered...the remedy. And he adds, that the duty of all judges is to construe the statute, so as to repress the mischief, and advance the remedy. Now, the mischief... | |
 | John Raymond (of the Middle Temple.) - 1846 - 72 páginas
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law)," four things are to be discerned and considered : 1 . What was the common law before the making of the act ? 2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1846 - 798 páginas
...penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be considered , 1, What was the common law before the making of the act ; 2, What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide; 3, What is the remedy ; 4, The true reason of the remedy.... | |
 | Denis Caulfield Heron, Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell, William Neilson Hancock - 1846 - 140 páginas
...interpretation of all statutes, " Four things are " to be discerned and considered : 1. What was the com" mon law before the making of the act ? 2. What was " the mischief and defect for which the common law did " not provide ? 3. What remedy the parliament hath " resolved and appointed... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1851 - 218 páginas
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be discerned and considered. "1. What was the Common Law before the making of the Act? " 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the Common Law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1856 - 612 páginas
...four things are to be discerned and considered : VOL. XI. 23 The People agt. Berberrich and Toynbee. " 1. What was the common law before the making of the act? " 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide? " 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 páginas
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discussed and considered : " 1. What was the common law before the making of the act ? " 2. "What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved * So in New... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1857 - 704 páginas
...for the interpretation of all Statutes : — " Four things are to be discerned and considered : — " 1 . What was the Common Law before the making of the Act * "2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1858 - 724 páginas
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be discerned and considered. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act? 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
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That for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discerned and considered. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act? 2.... 
