| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 726 pages
...the event of a failure of lineal descendants, and should be strictly construed. The general rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed has been repeatedly recognized by this court, and its application to statutes similar to the one under... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1826 pages
...or liability asserted by or against her shall have accrued before or after the passage of this act." Statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, and I am unwilling, upon such language as is contained in the foregoing statute, to obliterate the... | |
| Mississippi. Supreme Court, Thomas Alexander Marshall, William C. Smedes, Volney Erskine Howard, Robert John Walker, John Franklin Cushman, James Zachariah George - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1050 pages
...railroad corporations proper, the court does not even have to call to its aid the general rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed, though this in itself would be sufficient, perhaps; but such limitation upon the use of that section... | |
| Illinois - Law - 1917 - 880 pages
...may be cited as the Uniform Limited Partnership Act. § 28. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.] (1) The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this Act. (2) This Act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect... | |
| Guido Calabresi - Law - 1982 - 336 pages
...Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics (1962), and Chap. Ill, text at notes 6-8. That "statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed," and that "statutory repeal by implication is disfavored," are other examples of court imposed "clear... | |
| S. E. Thorne - History - 1984 - 290 pages
...likewise must give pause to those who adhere to Dean Pound's widely-accepted view that the doctrine that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed is a product of late eighteenth-century thought.39 Dean T, STATUTES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION (1922)... | |
| Robert A. Katzmann - Political Science - 2010 - 226 pages
...construction is unnecessary; penal statutes are to be construed narrowly, but remedial statutes broadly; statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed; the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another; repeals by implication are disfavored; and... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 800 pages
...restitution of the real estate in complaint mentioned. Forfeitures are not favored by the common law, and statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed. Opinion of the Court — Temple, J. have paid all the rent which may ultimately be shown to have been... | |
| Morton J. Horwitz - Law - 1992 - 374 pages
...religion, science, and the market. It not only treated legislative initiatives with great suspicion ("statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed") but it reacted to the development of adm1nistrative regulation with an hostility reserved for an alien... | |
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