 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1016 pages
...strictly construed. Cone v. Bowlts, 1 Salk. 205; Rex v. Glastonby, Cas. t. Hardw. 357; Dwarris, Stat. 644. Statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed.. Coke, Inst. 282, pt. 3, $ 485; Crayton v. Jfunger, 11 Tex. 234. Costs are or ought to he allowed simply... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1304 pages
...COMPLIANCE. Statutes authorizing the adoption of children and the abrogation of the relation, like other statutes In derogation of the common law, are to be strictly construed, and the mode prescribed must be substantially complied with. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Adoption,... | |
 | Daniel Roberts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 374 pages
...PRACTICE, 26, 27. STATE PAY. See SOLDIER. STATUTE. 1. Construction. 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,... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach (Jr.) - Corporation law - 1891 - 832 pages
...Me. 571. lyn, 120 US 747. Thus in Mer§ 147. Construction of statutes.— The general principle that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, has been frequently applied to acts and charters under which the creditors of corporations have sought... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 888 pages
...same subject; but an equivalent and equally forcible rule of construction does apply generally, that statutes in derogation of the common law, are to be strictly construed, and carried no farther than thei words necessarily require. This is so because as Broom has said: Changes... | |
 | Joseph Henry Budd - Civil procedure - 1902 - 800 pages
...strictly construed. That case was decided in 1867, and the rule now is, that the former rule, that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, has no application to the Code of Civil Procedure.58 The court may determine any controversy between... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1152 pages
...consideration, we must be guided by twofirmly established and familiar rules of construction : 1. That statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed; and 2. That, prima facie, the word "child," or "children," when used in a statute, will, or deed, means... | |
 | James Coolidge Carter - Jurisprudence - 1907 - 380 pages
...intended to make it so, for he introduced into his proposed code a clause to the effect that the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed should have no applica1 Austin, Lecture XXXIX., §§ 951, 952. tion to the code! Now if it be true,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1270 pages
...statutes are to be liberally construed. In the same way, by application of that oftquoted rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, it is easy to establish that all statutes, except those needless statutes declaratory of the common... | |
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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. 
