 | David Dudley Field - Law - 1884 - 604 pages
...any case, where the \ | VJ law is declared by the five codes. " • LJ-/—* SEC. 2032. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code. SEO. 2033. All statutes, laws, and rules heretofore in force in this... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 748 pages
...applicable to insolvent trust companies, except as to application of assets. Although the ancient rule, that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, has been considerably relaxed in modern times, if indeed it now has any solid foundation in our jurisprudence,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1162 pages
...think Acts 1864, p. 341, c. 252 (Code Pub. Gen. Laws 1904, art. 21, 5 70), applicable to this case. Statutes In derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, and the covenant now under consideration appears to be beyond the immediate scope and object of that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1168 pages
...virtue of the exception which this statute has created to the general rules of the common law, and statutes In derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed. • • » Whoever, therefore, would avail himself of the provisions of the statute in question, must... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 940 pages
...general assignment of his or its estate for the benefit of creditors," etc. The general rule is that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed. Certainly a proper regard for this rule forbids the enlargement of a statute by construction, so as... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1164 pages
...favorably and liberally construed as remedial statutes, and shall not be affected by the doctrine that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed. II. General Bules of Practice of the Supreme Court of Errors and Superior Court. APPEARANCE OF PARTIES.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1132 pages
...accident occurred or over the person appealing from such decision. Section 60 provides that the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to the act, which shall be construed to effectuate its general purpose. An... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1132 pages
...favorably and liberally construed as remedial statutes, and shall not be affected by the doctrine that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed. II. General Bules of Practice of the Supreme Court of Errors and Superior Court. APPEARANCE OF PARTIES.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 728 pages
...tanto no longer law. Against this " negative intendment " the writer also invokes the dogma that all statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed. His dogma is happily obsolescent.' In view of a century's statutory efforts to subvert it, the common... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1350 pages
...Supreme Court of Oblo and the Court of Appeals of New York bave, and reached the conclusion: "That statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, and one who seeks to maintain an action which was within the prohibition of the common law must be... | |
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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. 
