 | 1898 - 1020 σελίδες
...should always prevail over the literal sense of the terms employed. "When the expression of a statute is special or particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general; and the reason and intention of the lawgiver will control the strict letter of the law, when the latter... | |
 | 1909 - 1304 σελίδες
...case the court said: "We apply an 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 terras, and therefore, when the expression is special or particular, but the reason is general, the... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1256 σελίδες
...case, the statute was complied with in substance and in spirit. Where the expression in a statute is particular, but the reason is general, the expression should be deemed general also. 1 Kent Com., 462; Bank v. Archer, 8 S. & M., 851. The law is highly penal, and should be strictly... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - 1907 - 624 σελίδες
...Wall. 648, 22 L. Ed. 690. It is an "old and unshaken rule in the construction of statutes, to wit, that the intention of a remedial statute will always prevail...general, the expression should be deemed general." Brown v. Pendergast, 89 Mass. 427. A large construction is to be given to statutes having for their... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1896 - 760 σελίδες
...following well established rules govering the interpretation of statutes: "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... | |
 | Gustav Adolf Endlich - 2005 - 942 σελίδες
...which, literally, was limited to a special case ; [as requiring, that, when the expression in a statute is special or particular, b.ut the reason is general, the expression! should be deemed general."'] Thus, the Statute of Westminster 1 (3 Ed. 1, c. 4), which enacted that a vessel should! not be adjudged... | |
 | 1909 - 1182 σελίδες
...case the court said: "We apply an old and unshaken rule in the construction of statutes, to wit, that the intention of a remedial statute will always prevail...general, the expression should be deemed general." The rule of cases like Garfleld v. Bcmis, 2 Allen, 445, where the giving of a new remedy would result... | |
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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... 
