 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1870 - 764 σελίδες
...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...of the act ? "2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved aud appointed... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1870 - 756 σελίδες
...penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to bo discerned and considered: * " 1. What was the common law before the making of the act I "2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide Î " 3. What remedy... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1871 - 642 σελίδες
...resolutions in ffeydon's Case, what was the mischief and defect for which the law did not provide, and what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the law, it seems to me im1 10 M. & W. 546. possible to avoid coming to the conclusion that this judgment... | |
 | 1874 - 978 σελίδες
...penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be discussed and considered — 1. What was the common law before the...the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 σελίδες
...penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discussed and considered : " 1. What was the common law before the...the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? "3. What remedy the Parlament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 840 σελίδες
...of the common law," says the same authority,4 " four things are to be discerned and considered: i. What was the common law before the making of the act ? 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide ? 2 US Rev. Stats., Revision of 1873-74, § 4966. * Ante,... | |
 | Victoria. Supreme Court - 1885 - 890 σελίδες
...discern and consider what was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide, and what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth": Ueydon's Case (h). This inquiry is properly made according to the same authority, " for the sure and... | |
 | Robert Donnell - 1876 - 574 σελίδες
...statute we should consider " 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 Parliament had resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | New Zealand - 1877 - 428 σελίδες
...WOEGAN enlarging of the common law, four things are to be discerned and .•• considered : — CUEL. " 1. What was the common law before the making of the Act ? " 2. What was the mischief and defect against which the common law did not provide ? " 3. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed... | |
 | 1877 - 510 σελίδες
...the Barons of the Exchequer are especially applicable as the guide in the case under consideration : 1. " What was the common law before the making of the act? " 2. "What was the mischief aud defect for which the commou law did not provide?" 3. " What remedy the Parliament hath resolved... | |
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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. 
