 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1877 - 714 σελίδες
...construction of statutes, Chancellor Kent lays down this cardinal rule : " When the expression in a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general." 3. The testimony of Bradley, if admitted, would have varied the legal effect of the indorsement. Tankersly... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 σελίδες
...ascertained, will always prevail over the literal 'sense of terms.0 When the expression in a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general.'1 Scire leges, non hoc est verba earum tenere sed vim ac potestatcm, and the reason and intention... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1909 - 796 σελίδες
...receivers in the Harris Case: "It is an old and unshaken rule in the construction of statutes that the intention of a remedial statute will always prevail...particular, but the reason is general, the expression shall be deemed general." And again: "It may be stated in general terms that any statute which gives... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 σελίδες
...of much practical importance. Thus Chancellor Kent mentions, that "where the expression in a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general." 1 But this is only one application of the doctrine, that the entire enactment must be examined, and... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 732 σελίδες
...ascertained, will always prevail over the literal sense of terms, (d) When the expression in a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general, (e) Scire leges, non hoc est verba earum tenere sed vim ac potestatew, and the reason and intention... | |
 | James Kent - 1860 - 748 σελίδες
...Thompson, Ch. J., in The Pcople v. Utica Ins. Co. 15 Johnson, 380. Whituey v. Whituey, 14 Mass. R. 92. * or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general, (a) Scire leges, non hoc est verba earum tenerc sed vim ac potestatem, and the reason and intention... | |
 | James Kent - 1866 - 722 σελίδες
...ascertained, will always prevail over the literal sense of terms. (b) When the expression in a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general. (c) Scire leges, non hoc est verba earum tenere sed vim ac potestatem, and the reason and intention... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - 1872 - 1084 σελίδες
...accurately ascertained will always prevail over the literal sense of terms. When the expression in a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general. When the words are not explicit, the intention is to be collected from the context, from the occasion... | |
 | 1877 - 632 σελίδες
...accurately ascertained will always prevail over the literal sense of terms. When the expression in a statute is special or particular but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general." On page 48 the Justice cites Tanner's case approvingly. In Pattison v, Armstrong (in the same volume,... | |
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old and unshaken rule in the construction of statutes, to wit, that the intention of a remedial statute will always prevail over the literal sense of its terms, and therefore when the expression is special or particular, but the reason is general, the... 
