 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...meaning of the law are to be ascertained by viewing the whole and every part of the act. If any section be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper mode...one clause by the words or obvious intent of another (v). This, as Sir E. Coke observes, is the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...says : "If any section of a law he intricate, obscure or doubtful, the proper mode of dis=" covering its true meaning is by comparing it with the other...out the sense of one clause by the words or obvious meaning of another." Co. Lit. 381. Then it is a rule of construction, that the whole is to be examined... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...meaning of the law are to be ascertained by viewing the whole and every part of the act. If any section be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper mode...sense of one clause by the words or obvious intent of another.(a) This, as Sir E. Coke observes, is the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...meaning of the *law are to be ascertained by viewing the whole and every part of the act. If any section be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper mode...sense of one clause by the words or obvious intent of another.3 This, as Sir E. Coke observes, is the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute;4... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...; and this Sir Edward Coke regards the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute.2 " If any section [of a law] be intricate, obscure, or...clause by the words or obvious intent of another." 3 And in making this comparison it is not to be supposed that any words have been employed without... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...; and this Sir Edward Coke regards the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute.2 " If any section [of a law] be intricate, obscure, or...its true meaning is by comparing it with the other judge of the case saw fit to make it. We admit that the exercise of an unlimited discretion may, in... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...; and this Sir Edward Coke regards the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute.1 " If any section [of a law] be intricate, obscure, or...sense of one clause by the words or obvious intent of another."2 And in making this comparison it is not to be supposed that any words have been employed... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 974 pages
...; and this Sir Edward Coke regards the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute.2 " If any section [of a law] be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper it has often been the case that the length by Mr. Austin, in his Province arbitrary discretion of a... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...part; and this Sir Edward Coke regards the most natural and genuine method of expounding a statute. 2 " If any section [of a law] be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper it has often been the case that the length hy Mr. Austin, in his Province arbitrary discretion of a... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1879 - 664 pages
...considered and treated as one intended to be consistent throughout, and hence, if any. section or part be intricate, obscure or doubtful, the proper mode...meaning is by comparing it with the other sections or parts in the light of the general legislative intent disclosed by the whole system with respect... | |
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If any section of a law be intricate, obscure, or doubtful, the proper mode of discovering its true meaning is by comparing it with the other sections, and finding out the sense of one clause by the words or obvious intent of another. 
