 | Edward Erastus Deacon - 1833 - 774 頁
...there are four things to be considered in the interpretation of statutes, be they penal or beneficial. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act. 2. What was the mischief and defect, which the common law did not provide for. 3. What remedy the legislature has provided ; and 4. The... | |
 | Edward Erastus Deacon, Edward Chitty, Great Britain. Court of Review - 1833 - 762 頁
...there are four things to be considered in the interpretation of statutes, be they penal or beneficial. 1. What was the common law before the making of the act. 2, What was the mischief and defect, which the common law did not provide for. 3. What remedy the legislature has provided ; and 4. The... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1838 - 586 頁
...are to be discerned and considered: 1st. What was the common law before the making of the acts : 2nd. What was the mischief and defect, for which the common law did not provide: 3rd. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed, to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | 1841 - 692 頁
...discerned and considered: — 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 the - Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the "... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 頁
...four points are to be considered : 1st, what was the common law before the making of the act; 2ndly, what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; 3rdly, what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | John Raymond (of the Middle Temple.) - 1846 - 72 頁
...beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law)," four things are to be discerned and considered : 1 . What was the common law before the making of the...law did not provide ? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth ? 4. The true reason of the remedy... | |
 | Denis Caulfield Heron, Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell, William Neilson Hancock - 1846 - 140 頁
...interpretation of all statutes, " Four things are " to be discerned and considered : 1. What was the com" mon law before the making of the act ? 2. What was " the...did " not provide ? 3. What remedy the parliament hath " resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the common" wealth ? And 4. The true reason of... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1846 - 798 頁
...penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law, four things are to be considered , 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 is the remedy ; 4, The true reason of the remedy.... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 頁
...enlarging, the common law : — 1st, what was the common law before the making ot the act ¡ 2ndly, what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; 3dly, what remedy the Parliament bus resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
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Exchequer 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: (1) What was the common law before the making of the... 
