 | Louisiana - 1825 - 804 lehte
...what is clear in one statute may be called in aid to explain what is doubtful in another. ART. 18. — The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when its expressions are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it) or the cause which induced... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 738 lehte
...literally understood, we must deviate from the received sense of them. " Reason and spirit of the law — The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause that moved... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1833 - 450 lehte
...that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened...a person that fell down in the street with a fit. Blackstone, Comment. Introd. § 2, p. 61. For a variety of such cases, see Ilhet. ad Herennium, lib.... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes - 1833 - 488 lehte
...that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened...a person that fell down in the street with a fit. Blackstone, Comment. Introd. § 2, p. 61 . For a variety of such cases, see Rhet. ad Herennium, lib.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 lehte
...that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened...But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of disco- [*61] vering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 lehte
..." that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost • I. 5. c. 12. §. 8. severity," was held after a long debate not to extend...a person that fell down in the street with a fit. AS to the 5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of reason and . , . /• iii •pint.... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 lehte
...drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," was held not to extend to a surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit But the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1845 - 434 lehte
...that whoever drew blood in, the streets should be punished with the utmost severity' was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon who opened...a person that fell down in the street with a fit." (1 Comm. 60.) Puffendorf says, " it had like to have gone hard with him, [the barber or surgeon,] because... | |
 | Hawaii. Office of the Attorney General - 1846 - 710 lehte
...passage ; for they are among the motives. Blackstone says, vol. I, p. 61, " When the words are dubious, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, is by considering the reason and spirit of it, or the cause which moved the legislature to enact it."... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 556 lehte
...enacted that whoever drew blood in the streets, should be punished with the utmost severity, it was held not to extend to the Surgeon who opened the vein of a person who fell down in the street with a fit. Where there was a law that those who in a storm forsook the... | |
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that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity,' did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street in a fit. 
