 The rule applicable here is that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if practicable, and must lean in favor of a construction...  The Iowa Journal of History and Politics - Page 2961903Full view - About this book
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...a. 3 Stowell v. Lord Zouch, Plowd. 365 ; Broom's Maxims, 521. the law. The rule applicable here is, that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if practicable, and lean in... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...that they should have effect as part of * the law. The rule applicable here is, that effect [* 58] t« to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if practicable, and lean in... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...without intent that they should have effect as [* 58] part of * the law. The rule applicable here is, that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if practicable, and lean in... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 678 pages
...occasion, or without intent that they should have effect as part of the law. The rule applicable here is, that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every secCory et al. r. Carter. tion and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 598 pages
...occasion, or without intent that they should have effect as part of the law. The rule applicable here is that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if practicable, and must lean... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 518 pages
...of any part. (Cooley's Const. Lim. 57-58; Broom's Maxims, 521.) It is also a rule of construction, that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the court must harmonize them. (Cooley Const. Lim. 57-58; 24... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1884 - 934 pages
...occasion, or without intent that they should have effect as part of the law. The rule applicable here is, that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if practicable, and must lean... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1026 pages
...one of the cardinal rules of construction stated by Judge Cooley, as follows: "That effect is to he given, if possible, to the whole instrument and to every section and clause. If different portions seem to conflict, the courts must harmonize them, if possible, and must lean... | |
 | Law - 1895 - 1148 pages
...occasion, or without intent that they should have effect as part of the law. The rule applicable here is that effect is to be given, if possible, to the whole instrument, and to every section and clause." By giving the proper force and effect to these words and to those employed in the enacting part of... | |
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