| 1843 - 528 strani
...proper course is to search out and follow the true intent of the legislature, and to adopt that sense, which harmonizes best with the context, and promotes...the apparent policy and objects of the legislature. United States v. Winn, 3 Sumner, 185. 11. (Mistake in statute.) In construing an act of congress, if... | |
| United States - 1846 - 916 strani
...proper course is to search out and follow the true intent of the legislature and to adopt that sense which harmonizes best with the context, and promotes,...the apparent policy and objects of the legislature. The United States v. Weaver, S Sumncr's CCR 2U8. 687 yard, and if dyed, colored, printed, or stained,... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 strani
...or in giving them the narrowest interpretation, where the mischief which is to be redressed by the statute is equally applicable to all of them. And...the apparent policy and objects of the legislature. The most restricted sense, then, is not, as a matter of course, to be adopted as the true sense of... | |
| United States - 1850 - 906 strani
...proper course is to search out and follow the true intent of the legislature and to adopt that sense which harmonizes best with the context, and promotes, in the fullest manner, the apparent policy and obIects of the legislature. The United States e. Winn, 3 Sumncr's CCR 209. . In construing an act of... | |
| United States - 1848 - 880 strani
...proper course is to search out and follow the true intent of the legislature and to adopt that sense which harmonizes best with the context, and promotes, in the fullest manner, the apparent policy and objecti of the legislature. The United States v. Winn, 3 Simmer's ('. f. R. 209. 587 yard, and if dyed,... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 strani
...and to adopt that sense of the words which harmonizes best with the context, and which would promote, in the fullest manner, the apparent policy and objects of the legislature. § 755. The case last cited is one illustrative of the application of this rule. The defendant was... | |
| R. Peters - 1856 - 896 strani
...intent of the legislature and to adopt that sense which harmonizes best with the context, and promote», in the fullest manner, the apparent policy and objects of the legislature. The United States ». VVinn, 3 Sumncr's CCR 209. In construing an act of Congress, if there be a mistake... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 strani
...one class, or in giving them the narrowest interpretation, where the mischief to be redressed by the statute is equally applicable to all of them. And...fullest manner the apparent policy and objects of the legislature.f * Commonwealth w. Loring, 8 Pick. 370, 374. t USM Winn, 3 Sumner, 209, 211, 212. In another... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 strani
...restrained, if the objects of the statute equally apply to the largest and broadest sense of the word. la short, it appears to me that the proper course in...fullest manner the apparent policy and objects of the legislature.f In another case the same learned judge said, — Penal statutes are to be construed strictly... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1858 - 724 strani
...the same judge in reference to penal statutes, " The proper course is to search out and follow the intent of the legislature, and to adopt that sense...promotes in the fullest manner the apparent policy and object of the legislature.'' Justice Woodbury. (2 N. Hamp. Rep. 195,) says : " A statute, if of public... | |
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