 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 662 pages
...pleading or practice. Its language is, I think, well chosen for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretations...determine whether, in a suit instituted for the purpose of canceling the invalid certificates of stock in the plaintiffs' corporation, all the claims under these... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 738 pages
...for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretation which shall be found most convenient and best calculated to promote the ends of justice." The order appealed from is reversed, and the defendants should have judgment upon the demurrer, with... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Actions and defenses - 1876 - 908 pages
...for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretation which shall be found most convenient and best calculated...than those which have long prevailed in courts of equity."1 Mr. Justice Comstock plainly regards it unnecessary, if not impossible, to attempt a definition... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Actions and defenses - 1876 - 924 pages
...so general as to justify the interpretation which shall be found most convenient and best caleulated to promote the ends of justice. It is certainly impossible...those which have long prevailed in courts of equity." 1 Mv. Justice Comstock plainly regards it unnecessary, if not impossible, to attempt a definition of... | |
 | Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Edward Bell Green, Frank Dale, John Henry Burford, Robert Lee Williams, Matthew John Kane, Howard J. Parker, Charles Winfield Van Eaton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 936 pages
...for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretation which shall be found most convenient and best calculated...impossible to extract from a provision so loose, and Opinion of the Court. yet so comprehensive, any rules less liberal than those which have long prevailed... | |
 | William Albert Keener - Equity - 1894 - 908 pages
...pleading or practice. Its language is, I think, well chosen for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretations...necessary, therefore, to determine whether, in a suit in. stituted for the purpose of cancelling the invalid certificates of stock 1 Code of 1852, ยง 144.... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Actions and defenses - 1904 - 1164 pages
...for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to (justify the interpretation which shall be found most convenient and best calculated...those which have long prevailed in courts of equity." l Mr. Justice Comstock plainly regards it unnecessary, if not impossible, to attempt a definition of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1118 pages
...justice. He remarked: "Its language is, I think, well chosen for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretations...those which have long prevailed in courts of equity." In Keep v. Kaufman, 56 NY 332, another learned justice, confessing the same situation, said, apparently... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1116 pages
...He remarked : ' ' Its language is, I think, well chosen for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretations...those which have long prevailed in courts of equity." In Keep v. Kaufman, 56 NY 332, another learned justice confessing the same situation said, apparently... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 774 pages
...justice. He remarked : "Its language is, I think, well chosen for the purpose intended, becaiise it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretations...those which have long prevailed in courts of equity." In Keep v. Kaufman, 56 NY 332, another learned justice confessing the same situation said, apparently... | |
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Its language is, I think, well chosen for the purpose intended, because it is so obscure and so general as to justify the interpretations which shall be found most convenient and best calculated to promote the ends of justice. 
