 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell, Thomas Bell Monroe, John James Marshall, James Greene Dana, Benjamin Monroe, James P. Metcalfe, Alvin Duvall, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Rodman, Edward Warren Hines, Charles Cyrus Turner, Thomas Lewis Edelen, Thomas Robert McBeath, Robert G. Higdon, T. M. Jones, Amos Hall Eblen - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913
...it and the statute, and it does not appear that the Legislature intended to cover the whole subject. Statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, unless as in some States, there is a provision to the contrary." And although we have a statute, in... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 712 pages
...with and conveying lands to each other."J To understand the meaning and present value of the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, we must keep in mind the feelings of our ancestors in regard to that system of jurisprudence. They... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - Law - 1859 - 607 pages
...Code. J 1125. Repeal of former statutes. 1126. Time when Code takes effect. § 1124. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed has no application to this Code. § 1125. All statutes, laws, and rules heretofore lUtUtM. .,. . .... | |
 | 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 - 1864
...all cases, as to instruments which are the foundation of the action. Hence, by the general rule, that statutes in derogation of the common law, are to be strictly construed; pleadings, where the statute has not prescribed differently, may be as at common law. In this case... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864
...&c. excludes them by construction from being that character of property. It is to be remarked that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed in this regard ; and the common law is not abrogated by mere implication, when both the common law... | |
 | New York (State), New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - Civil law - 1865 - 776 pages
...is no common law, in any case, where the law is declared by the five Codes. § 2032. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code. § 2033. All statutes, laws and rules heretofore in force in thia... | |
 | 1867
...abrogated. In reference even to private relations, its doctrines are materially changed. The doctrine, "that statutes in derogation of the Common Law are to be strictly construed," has now in reality no solid foundation either in American or English jurisprudence; and, though for... | |
 | Law - 1875
...28 Iowa, 802, is, therefore, not an authority here. We apprehend that a due regard for the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed would preclude the construction for which our correspondent contends. ED. AL ,1 , ] THE CENTRAL VERMONT... | |
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This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those States which enact it. 
