Cardinal Rules of Legal InterpretationStevens, 1908 - 674 pages |
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... looks through Campbell's Reports will be greatly surprised to see , among such an immense number of questions , many of them of 10 LEGAL INTERPRETATION . Plowden Saunders Starkie Strange Vernon Winch Nisi Prius Reports Campbell Nisi ...
... looks through Campbell's Reports will be greatly surprised to see , among such an immense number of questions , many of them of 10 LEGAL INTERPRETATION . Plowden Saunders Starkie Strange Vernon Winch Nisi Prius Reports Campbell Nisi ...
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... look away from the document which you have to con- strue - when you look into cases ( that is to say ) which have been decided on other documents more or less like the one before you . I do not propose to deal with decided cases at all ...
... look away from the document which you have to con- strue - when you look into cases ( that is to say ) which have been decided on other documents more or less like the one before you . I do not propose to deal with decided cases at all ...
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... look at the will and codicils with which I have to deal . I do not consider that a decision which is more or less at variance with other cases is wrong because it is so at variance . Cases of construction are useful when they lay down ...
... look at the will and codicils with which I have to deal . I do not consider that a decision which is more or less at variance with other cases is wrong because it is so at variance . Cases of construction are useful when they lay down ...
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... look at a similar instrument and say that a certain construction was put upon it , and that it differs only to such a slight degree from the document before you , that you do not think the difference sufficient to alter the construction ...
... look at a similar instrument and say that a certain construction was put upon it , and that it differs only to such a slight degree from the document before you , that you do not think the difference sufficient to alter the construction ...
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... look at the judgments of the majority who decided the case , for the reasons to be found in their judgments must be either wholly or to some extent the reasons which guided the House of Lords in coming to their conclusion . I therefore ...
... look at the judgments of the majority who decided the case , for the reasons to be found in their judgments must be either wholly or to some extent the reasons which guided the House of Lords in coming to their conclusion . I therefore ...
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Popular passages
Page 486 - Comity,' in the legal sense, is neither a matter of absolute obligation, on the one hand, nor of mere courtesy and good will, upon the other. But it is the recognition which one nation allows within its territory to the legislative, executive or judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both to international duty and convenience, and to the rights of its own citizens or of other persons who are under the protection of its laws.
Page 628 - An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 506 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 179 - The distinction is very clear, where mutual covenants go to the whole of the consideration on both sides, they are mutual conditions, the one precedent to the other. But where they go only to a part, where a breach may be paid for in damages, there the defendant has a remedy on his covenant, and shall not plead it as a condition precedent.
Page 635 - ... affect any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under any enactment so repealed...
Page 603 - ... unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will, by reason of such Person having a prior Estate Tail, or of a preceding Gift, being, without any Implication arising from such Words, a Limitation of an Estate Tail to such Person or Issue or otherwise : Provided, that this Act shall not extend to Cases where such Words as aforesaid import if no Issue described in a preceding Gift shall be born, or if there shall be no Issue who shall live to attain the Age or otherwise answer the Description...
Page 59 - ... as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same words...
Page 604 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 420 - Every statute, it has been said, which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect of transactions or considerations already past, must be presumed, out of respect to the Legislature, to be intended not to have a retrospective operation.
Page 609 - And by sect 21. it is enacted, " that " no obliteration, interlineation, or other " alteration made in any will after the " execution thereof shall be valid or " have any effect, except so far as the " words or effect of the will before such " alteration shall not be apparent...