 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1919 - 808 pages
...paramount to form." Lewis' Sutherland on Stat. Const. (2d Ed.) § 352. The object of construing a statute is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the Legislature. It is to be gathered from the necessity or reason for the enactment and the meaning of the words, enlarged... | |
 | South Dakota. Supreme Court - Court rules - 1923 - 722 pages
...explicit in its language and intent. In construing this section of statute law, and the said provision thereto, this court is not lawfully at liberty to...great fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascend and give effect to the intention of the Legislature This intention, however, must be the intention... | |
 | Hascal Russel Brill - Criminal law - 1922 - 1090 pages
...interpretation which apply to civil statutes apply to criminal statutes as well.* The paramount rule for construing statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature,5 and they should be fairly and reasonably interpreted with this end in view.6 The... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1923 - 1108 pages
...is not proper to confine attention to particular words, phrases, or sections. The fundamental rule is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature aa gathered from the language of the whole statute. Id. (128). CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTE— Continued.... | |
 | Herbert Confield Lust - Interstate commerce - 1925 - 1258 pages
...is not proper to confine attention to particular words, phrases, or sections. The fundamental rule is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature as gathered from the language of the whole statute. SP Co. Ownership of Atlantic SS Lines, 77 ICC 128.... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 788 pages
...Staples, J., said this: "While in the construction of statutes the constant endeavor of the courts is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature, that intention must be gathered from the words used, unless a literal construction would involve a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1032 pages
...elementary canons of construction. The principal rule of construction is the intention of the Legislature. "The great fundamental rule in construing statutes...and give effect to the intention of the Legislature. * * * But where the language of the statute is of doubtful meaning, or where an adherence to the strict... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 560 pages
...J., after discussing the statute, says: The primary object to be attained in the interpretation of statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature, and this is to be determined upon a consideration of the entire act and the objects and purposes Intended... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, United States - Interstate commerce - 1930 - 940 pages
...whole must be avoided, if possible. — Colonial Nav. Co. v. New York, NH & HR Co., 50 IOC 625. The fundamental rule in construing (statutes is to ascertain...and give effect to the Intention of the legislature gathered from the language. — Hastings Commercial Club v. Chicago, M. & St P. Ry. Co., 69 ICC 489,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Employment Security - Unemployment insurance - 1949 - 1080 pages
...legislature as disclosed by the context of the amendment. The primary rule governing the interpretation of statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature The court said in City of Grand Rapids v. Crocker, supra, 182 (219 Mich. 178) : "All others serve but... | |
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The fundamental rule in construing statutes is to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the legislature. 
