 | United States - 1850 - 906 strani
...regarded. Polk's Lessee r. Wendal, 9 Cranch, 87; 3 Cond. Rep. 286. In the construction of the statutes or local laws of a state, it is frequently necessary...ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing statutes. Preston... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 896 strani
...regarded. Folk's Lessee i\ Wendal, 9 Cranch, 87 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 286. In the construction of the statutes or local laws of a state, it is frequently necessary...ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing statutes. Preston... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 strani
...9 Cranch, 87 ; 3 Cond. Rep. 286. 15. In the construction of the statutes or local laws of a slate, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history...ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing «tatutes. Preston... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 698 strani
...in error. Pickens and Jones, contriL [ * 121 ] * TODD, J., delivered the opinion of the court, and, after stating the facts, proceeded as follows : —...enable a court to apply, with propriety, the different rales for construing statutes. It will be found, by a recurrence to the history of North Carolina,... | |
 | Michigan. Court of Chancery, Ebenezer Burke Harrington - 1872 - 504 strani
...ascertain the intention of the legislature. And may even recur to the situation and history of the country to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of the provisions of a statute law. It was clearly competent for the legislature to pass the act of 1829 now relied upon,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1744 strani
...with propriety recur to the history of the time when it was passed ; and this is frequently necessary, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of particular provisions in it." From the earliest period in the history of the state until the passage... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...a statute, recur to the history of the times when it was passed, and this is frequently necessary, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of particular provisions in it. (Aldridge vs. Williams, 3 Howard, p. 24; Preston vs. Browder, I Wheaton,... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court, Arthur MacArthur - 1877 - 670 strani
...propriety, recur to the history of the times when it was passed; and this is frequently necessary, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of particular provisions in it." It cannot be considered as jndicial intrusion to remark that the history... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 strani
...propriety, recur to the history of the times when it was passed; and this is frequently necessary, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of particular provisions in it." Aldridge v. Williams, 3 How. 24; Preston v. Jirowder, 1 Wheat. 1'JO.... | |
 | 1904 - 906 strani
...exercise of the taxing power, or relating to the state's disposition of ita public lands. In such cases it is frequently necessary to recur to the history...to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of the laws, and knowledge of such particulars will moat likely be found in the tribunals whose special... | |
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But courts, in construing a statute, may with propriety recur to the history of the times when it was passed; and this is frequently necessary, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of particular provisions in it. 
