 | Edward Erastus Deacon, Edward Chitty, Great Britain. Court of Review - 1833 - 762 lehte
...there are four things to be considered in the interpretation of statutes, be they penal or beneficial. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act. 2, What was the mischief and defect, which the common law did not provide for. 3. What remedy the legislature has provided ; and 4. The... | |
 | Edward Erastus Deacon - 1833 - 774 lehte
...there are four things to be considered in the interpretation of statutes, be they penal or beneficial. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act. 2. What was the mischief and defect, which the common law did not provide for. 3. What remedy the legislature has provided ; and 4. The... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 586 lehte
...are to be discerned and considered: 1st. What was the common law before the making of the acts : 2nd. What was the mischief and defect, for which the common law did not provide: 3rd. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed, to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | 1841 - 692 lehte
...discerned and considered: — First, what was the common law before the " making of the act : — Second, what was the mischief and defect for "which the common law did not provide : — Third, what remedy the - Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the "... | |
 | 1844 - 888 lehte
...was before the statute was made. 2. What the mischief was for which the Common Law had not provided. 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the mischief. 4. The true reason of the remedy. What is all this but a recurrence to the condition and... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 1174 lehte
...Act ? " II. What was the mischief and defect against which the Common Law did not provide ? " III. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the Commonwealth ? " IV. The true reason of the remedy. " It was then held to be the duty of the judges, at all times,... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 lehte
...four points are to be considered : 1st, what was the common law before the making of the act; 2ndly, what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; 3rdly, what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | John Raymond (of the Middle Temple.) - 1846 - 72 lehte
...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...appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth ? 4. The true reason of the remedy ? And then the office of all the judges is always to make such construction... | |
 | Denis Caulfield Heron, Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell, William Neilson Hancock - 1846 - 140 lehte
...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...resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the common" wealth ? And 4. The true reason of the remedy ? And " it has been held the duty of judges at... | |
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Exchequer 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... 
