 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...of die common law, for it is not to be presumed the lecTslature intended to make any innovation npon the common law, further than the case absolutely required. This has been the lansruage of the courts in every age ; and when we consider the constant, vehement, and exalted eulogv... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...Courts of Common Law, and governed by its principles.* It is not to be presumed that the legislature intended to make any innovation upon the Common Law, further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the Act did not intend to make any alteration, other than what is specified,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 722 pages
...in reference to the principles of the common law ; for it is not to be presumed that the legislature intended to make any innovation upon the common law,...further than the case absolutely required. This," says Chancellor Kent, 1 KenCs Comm. 462, " has been the language of the courts in every age." The extension... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 702 pages
...in reference to the principles of the Common Law ; for it is not to be presumed that the Legislature intended to make any innovation upon the Common Law, further than the case absolutely required. 1 Kent, 463. With such views of the Act of 1S42, and guided by the usual rules of statutory construction,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...in reference to the jninciples of the common law. For it is not to be presumed that the legislature intended to make any innovation upon the common law, further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the act did not intend to make any alteration, otiier than what is specified,... | |
 | John David CHAMBERS - 1856 - 180 pages
...in reference to the principles of the Common Law. 'For it is not to be presumed that the Legislature intended to make any innovation upon the Common Law further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the Act did not intend to make any alteration other than what is specified,... | |
 | John Louis Taylor Sneed, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 812 pages
...not to be presumed that the Legislature intended to make any innovation upon the common law, farther than the case absolutely required. This has been the language of the Courts in every age. — 1 Kent's Com., 433. It is not necessary to multiply authorities upon this subject; the principles... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 722 pages
...in reference to the principles of the common law, for it is not to be presumed that the legislature intended to make any innovation upon the common law, further than the case absolutely requires. (1 Kent's Com. 463, 3d ed.) This has been the language of the courts in every age. It is... | |
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For it is not to be presumed that the Legislature intended to make any innovation upon the Common Law further than the case absolutely required. 
