 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 670 pages
...The true rule for the construction of a statute is, as Parke, B. lays down in Becke v. Smith (12), "to adhere to the ordinary meaning of the words used...at variance with the intention of the legislature or leads to any manifest repugnancy." The question is, what was meant by the word "receive" as applied... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 760 pages
...the ordinary meaning and plain grammatical construction of the acts of parliament referred to, unless at variance with the intention of the legislature, to be collected from the statutes themselves ; that the construction contended for by the defendant in error (independently... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 600 pages
...down by my brother Parkc in 2 M. & W. 193, \ia very useful one, and in which I entirely concur. It is, to adhere to the ordinary meaning of the words used, and to he grammatical construction, unless that is nt variance with the intention of Legislature to be col-... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 638 pages
...Preston Firejind Life Insurance Becke v. Smith, 2 M. & W. 191, who said, " It is a very useful rule in the construction of a statute to adhere to the...collected from the statute itself, or leads to any maniCompany v. Davis. 14th December, 1847. AFFIDAVIT OF EXECUTION OF BOND. PRACTICE. A commissioner... | |
 | Law - 1849 - 608 pages
...on the admission also (for that is a different thing). Unless this construction can be shewn to be at variance with the intention of the Legislature to be collected from other parts of the Act, or would lead to some manifest injustice, we might moderate the language so... | |
 | 1849 - 734 pages
...the fee due on admittance also, for that is a different fee. If this construction can be shown to be at variance with the intention of the Legislature, to be collected from other parts of the act, or would lead to some manifest injustice, we might see if the language of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster - Judgments - 1851 - 448 pages
...according to the established rules, unless it would lead to some absurd or inconvenient consequence, or be at variance with the intention of the legislature to be collected from other parts of the Act." " We see no reason, therefore, for construing these words, which are primd... | |
 | Law - 1851 - 1152 pages
...according to the established rules, unless it would lead to some absurd or inconvenient consequence, or be at variance with the intention of the Legislature to be collected from other parts of the act. The ordinary construction was, in that case, manifestly in accordance with... | |
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It is a very useful rule in the construction of a statute to adhere to the ordinary meaning of the words used, and to the grammatical construction, unless that is at variance with the intention of the Legislature to be collected from the statute itself,... 
