 | James Stuart Laurie - 1864 - 120 σελίδες
...the old law, the mischief, and the remedy ; and the preamble, if there be one, is to be considered as a key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischief which they intended to redress. Moreover, as one part of a statute is properly called in to... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1870 - 748 σελίδες
...of making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer, is a key to open the minds of the makers of the act and the mischiefs which they intended to redress." My lords, I derive another proposition of law, (familiar, I dare say, also to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1870 - 764 σελίδες
...••! making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Ch:-f Justice Dyer, is a key to open the minds of the makers of the act and the таеЫА which they intended to redress." My lords, I derive another proposition of law, (familiar,... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1871 - 572 σελίδες
...making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice DvER,(i) is a 'key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress.'" The intention of the framers of this act, it is submitted, will be best carried... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - 1875 - 676 σελίδες
...Chief Justice Dyer, in Plowden, 369, uses the same expression, where he says of the preamble, that " it is a key to open the minds of the makers of the act and the mischief which they intended to redress." See also, Tindal, CJ, in the Sussex Peerage, 11 CI. & Fin.... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1880 - 716 σελίδες
...temperance. This, then, in the language of Chief Justice Dyer, approved by Chief Justice Tindal, is the key to open the minds of the makers of the Act, and the mischief they intended to Vattel says—"That must be the truest exposition of the law which best harmonizes... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - 1881 - 494 σελίδες
...ascertaining the intention of the Legislature. Chief-Justice Dyer calls the preamble of a statute " a key to open the minds of the makers of the Act, and the mischief which they intended to redress" (if). Lord Coke employs the same figure : " The rehearsal... | |
 | Straits Settlements - 1882 - 258 σελίδες
...of making the Statute 'and to have recourse to the Preamble, which according to Chief Justice Dyer, is a 'key to open the minds of the makers of the Act and the mischiefs which they intend" ed to redress," In Attorney-General v. Powis, 1 Kay 186, it is stated that in construing an... | |
 | 1886 - 960 σελίδες
...pj-<jamble, which in this case at least may be said to state the ground and cause of making it, and to be "a key to open the minds of the makers of the act," so that what was really intended by it may be seen, declares that whereas, it is highly useful to establish... | |
 | 1886 - 976 σελίδες
...preamble, which in this case at least may be said to state the ground and cause of making it, and to be " a key to open the minds of the makers of the act," so that what was really intended by it may be seen, declares that, whereas, it is highly useful to... | |
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a key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress. 
