 | United States. Department of Justice - 1902 - 768 페이지
...amendatory acts, it is said in Black. Intp. Laws, 365, quoting Lord Bromwell in a recent English case: natural meaning uninfluenced by any considerations...from the previous state of the law, and not to start in by inquiring how the law previously stood, and then assuming that it was probably intended to leave... | |
 | 1921 - 510 페이지
...negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning,...will bear an interpretation in conformity with this view."10 This attitude towards a code is quite in keeping with the Anglo-American tradition that legislation... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1891 - 840 페이지
...statute. " I think," he says, "the proper course is, in the first intance, to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning,...it was probably intended to leave it unaltered, to sec if the words of the enactment will bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. . . . I... | |
 | India - 1891 - 130 페이지
...AngloIndian codes : ' I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning,...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view I am, of course, far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law for... | |
 | Henry Hardcastle - 1892 - 748 페이지
...negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning,...interpretation in conformity with this view. If a (o) (1891) AC 107. Codification Acts. statute intended to embody in a code a particular branch of the... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1892 - 820 페이지
...agrees on this point, laying down that the proper method of interpretation is to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning,...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. And this principle of interpretation is, he points out, particularly necessary in the case of a statute... | |
 | Walter Charles Alan Ker - 1894 - 436 페이지
...noble Lord says : — " I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. ... I am, of course, far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law... | |
 | Robert Campbell - 1895 - 824 페이지
...negotiable instruments. I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning,...law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was [* 145] * probably intended to leave it unaltered, to see if the words of the enactment will bear an... | |
 | Great Britain - 1895 - 800 페이지
..." the law, he says : — " The proper course, in the first instance, is to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning,...the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiringhow the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was probably intended to leave it... | |
 | John Mews - 1893 - 828 페이지
...negotiable instruments, and the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning,...considerations derived from the previous state of the law ; no appeal ought to be made to the previous law except upon some special ground. Examples of special... | |
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I think the proper course is, in the first instance, to examine the language of the statute, and to ask what is its natural meaning, uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the... 
