| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 840 pages
...statute provides that the county court shall appoint some suitable person to muke such settlement. A word importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or tilings. (Revised Statutes, sec. 12, chap. 21.) Ib 438 STATUTE LAWS— 1. The city court of Henderson,... | |
| United States - Naval law - 1875 - 388 pages
...resolution of Congress passed ¡subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine gender... | |
| James Kirby - Law - 1878 - 658 pages
...the Revised Statutes, or of nuy act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February 25, 1871, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; word« importing the masculine gender may be applied to females" etc., etc. Now as to '• immemorial... | |
| Lewis Heyl - Money - 1879 - 494 pages
...nearly as may be a single proposition of enactment. 688. SECTION 2. That in all acts hereafter passed words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular; words importing the masculine gender may... | |
| United States - Internal revenue law - 1879 - 250 pages
...andfaithicsolutiou of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy .one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine gender... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...the lands were granted subject to the adjustment applicable to two«roads. And the general rule is that "words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things, words Importing the plural number may include the singular," as provided In the first section of the... | |
| George Leib Harrison - Europe - 1884 - 1134 pages
...subsequent R«v stat. or to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and i>e«niiu»ni. seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things ; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine gender... | |
| George Leib Harrison - Europe - 1884 - 1134 pages
...subsequent B»». sut. of to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and i>««n'moiw. seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or tilings; words importing the plural number may include the singular ; words importing the masculine... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 748 pages
...language is. we think, subject to the rule of construction of statutes contained in sec. 2, RL, providing that "words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to more than one person or thing." Especially should this be so, in coastruing this statute, which converts... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1148 pages
...And, In the light of the rule provided in our statutes for their construction (Pub. St. c. 2, § 3), that "words Importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular," and in view of the history of the legislation... | |
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