 | Jerome William Knapp, Edward Ombler - 1837 - 497 str.
...very distinctly laid down by Blackstone, in his Commentaries, in these terms: " There are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial...law, the mischief and the remedy; that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act; what the mischief, was for which the common law did not... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838
...to the construction of statutes are principally these which follow (26) : 1 . There are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial...law, the mischief, and the remedy : that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act ; what the mischief was, for which the common law did not... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841
...is, that in the interpretation of statutes in general, the following points are to be considered, — the old law, the mischief, and the remedy ; that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act, what the mischief was for which the common law did not provide,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853
...to be construed liberally;" and that "there are three points to be considered in the construction of remedial statutes; the old law, the mischief and the remedy; that is, how the old law stood at the making of the act; the mischief was what the old law did not provide; and the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848
...1842. That Act was intended to be a remedial statute. " There are three points." says Blackstone,"to bu considered in the construction of all remedial statutes;...law, the mischief, and the remedy ; that is, how the old law stood at the making the act ; what the mischief was for which the Common Law did not provide... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852
...principles to be observed in the construction of statutes 1 1. There are three points to be observed in the construction of all remedial statutes. The old law, the mischief, and the remedy. 2. A statute which treats of things or persons of an inferior rank, cannot, by any general words, 'be... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1855
...law, and by the court in case of a hearing in equity." — Laws 1854, p. 65. "There are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial...law, the mischief and the remedy; that is, how the common (or old) law stood at the making of the act, what the mischief was 'for which the common (former)... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 712 str.
...of it, or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. (Vol. I., p. 61.) There are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial...the mischief, and the remedy — that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act, what the mischief was for which the common law did not provide,... | |
 | 1857
...appropriate legislation. In the very rudiments of our profession we are taught, that three points are to be considered in the construction of all remedial...statutes ; the old law, the mischief, and the remedy. Now, here the old law was, that the debts and choses in action of the defendant could only be affected... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1859
...Dwarris, 675. "There are three points to be considered in the conOpinion by the Chief Justice. struction of all remedial statutes : the old law, the mischief and the remedy ; and it is the business of the Judges so to construe the act as to suppress the mischief and advance... | |
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THERE are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial statutes ; the old law, the mischief, and the remedy : that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act ; what the mischief was, for which the common law did not provide... 
