 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 586 pages
...penal, or beneficial, restrictive, or enlarging of the common law), four things 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... | |
 | Equity - 1841 - 690 pages
...Second, what was the mischief and defect for •' which the common law did not provide : — Third, what remedy the " Parliament hath resolved and appointed...cure the disease of the •• commonwealth : — and Fourth, the true reason and remedy." Let the statute in question be construed according to those rules.... | |
 | Equity - 1841 - 692 pages
...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 "... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...Act ? " II. What was the mischief and defect against which the Common Law did not provide ? " III. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the Commonwealth ? " IV. The true reason of the remedy. " It was then held to be the duty of the judges, at all times,... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...statutes, be they penal or beneficial, restrictive of or enlarging the common law, 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... | |
 | John Raymond (of the Middle Temple.) - 1846 - 72 pages
...are to be discerned and considered : 1 . What was the common law before the making of the act ? 2. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? 3. What remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...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 ; 3rdlv, what remedy the parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...statutes, be they penal or beneficial, restrictive of or enlarging the common law, 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... | |
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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. 
