| Great Britain. Courts - 1793 - 424 str.
...therefore it was added, " thatbpnJs taken in any other form (hould be void:" for, faid he, the ftatute is like a tyrant-^ where he comes he makes all void ; but the common law is like a nurflag father, makes void * L 3° J on'y tnat * part where the fault is, and prclerves the reft. KELVNGE,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, George Wilson - 1799 - 442 str.
...parliament might be eluded if they did not make the whole void, if part was void. It is faid, the ftatute is like a tyrant, where he comes he makes all void, but the common law is like a nurfmg father, makes only void that part where the fault is,and preferves the reft, i Mod. 35,36. T... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford - 1817 - 888 str.
...must not forget the figurative language of Lord " Ch. J. ll'/liHof. who said " That the statute law is like a tyrant; " where he comes he makes all void:...part where the " fault is, and preserves the rest." 2 Wils. 351. If an alteration be made to effect a fraud the alteration shall be laid out of the question;... | |
| Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers - 1823 - 1084 str.
...statutes. It is a saying of Lord Hobart's, (t) which has often been quoted, that " the statute (law) is like a tyrant : where he comes, he makes all void ; but the common law is like a nursing father; makes void only that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest." But this dictum has reference... | |
| Sir Edward Coke - 1826 - 538 str.
...TI. ) bond; Twisden J. said, he had heard Lord Hobart s:iy that " the statute is like a tyrant, when he comes he makes all void: but the common law is like a nursing father, makes void only that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest." And vid. Norton v. Symmes, Hob.... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Henry Hobart - 1829 - 672 str.
...should be taken, therefore it was added that bonds taken in other form should be void. For, said he, the statute is like a tyrant, where he comes he makes all void; but the common law, like a nursing father, makes void only that part where the fault is and preserves the rest' The same... | |
| James Kent - 1830 - 556 str.
...words used by a testator in his will. The noted observation of Lord Ch. J. Wilmot, naturally occurs, that " the statute is like a tyrant, where he comes he makes all void ; but the common law is li ke a nursing father, and makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest."... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1831 - 830 str.
...bond. The bond is only void for the excess. In Collins v. Blantern(a] WilmotS. says — " It is said the statute is like a tyrant, — where he comes he...void ; but the common law is like a nursing father, — makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves all the rest." In Norton v. Simmcs... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1832 - 874 str.
...act of Parliament might be eluded if they did not make the whole void if part was void; it is said the statute is like a tyrant, where he comes he makes...void, but the common law is like a nursing father, making only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest;" and, in Norton v. Simmes (6),... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 str.
...the case of such an instrument being in part void at common law. " A statute," it has been said (q ), "is like a tyrant — where he comes he makes all void; but the common law is like a nursing father — it makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest." And it has been laid... | |
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