 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1917 - 188 pages
...7. Our courts have laid down the rule that if the general meaning and object of a statute should be inconsistent with the literal import of any particular...possible, be construed according to the spirit of the act, and that it is proper to consider the whole of a statute and the probable intention of the Legislature... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...might be defeated: and if, upon the examination of the general meaning and objects of the statute, it should be found inconsistent with the literal import...application of this rule, the intention of the legislature, as collected from the whole act, must be clear and manifest.(a) But as the spirit, as well as the letter... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - Tax-sales - 1855 - 822 pages
...construction of the words. 17 Vermont R. 479. 173. If the general meaning and object of a statute should be inconsistent with the literal import of any particular...intention of the legislature must be clear and manifest. 1 Pick. R. 248 ; 10 Ibid. 235 ; 20 Ibid. 267. 174. Where the manifest intention of the legislature... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1855 - 1124 pages
...of the section itself are unambiguous, and if the general meaning and object of a statute should be inconsistent with the literal import of any particular...intention of the legislature must be clear and manifest." 1 Pick, p. 248-250 ; 10 Pick, 235, and 20 Pick, 26T. The question upon this part of the case, so far... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 626 pages
...Cow. Rep 410 ; 5 Wheat. 76 ; 8 Pick. 370.) If the general meaning and objects of a statute should be inconsistent with the literal import of any particular clause or section, such clause or section should be construed according to the spirit of the act, if the intent of the legislature be clear and... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Fugitive slaves - 1860 - 312 pages
...qualification was intended by the legislature, to avoid such a conclusion." — 24 Pickering, 370. " When the meaning of any particular section or clause...be construed according to the spirit of the act." — i Pickering, 280. intention of the legislature to be extracted from the whole. It is also tru3... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - Tax-sales - 1864 - 724 pages
...construction of the words. 17 Vermont, 479. 173. If the general meaning and object of a statute should be inconsistent with the literal import of any particular...intention of the legislature must be clear and manifest. 1 Pickering, 248 ; 10 Pickering, 235 ; 20 Pick. ering, 267. 174. Where the manifest intention of the... | |
 | Robert S. Blackwell - Tax-sales - 1869 - 738 pages
...construction of the words. 18 Vermont, 479. 173. If the general meaning and object of a statute should be inconsistent with the literal import of any particular...intention of the legislature must be clear and manifest. 1 Pickering, 248 ; 10 Pickering, 235 ; 20 Pickering, 267. 174. Where the manifest intention of the... | |
 | New York (State). Superior Court (New York), James Clark Spencer, Samuel Jones - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 652 pages
...be defeated ; and if upon the examination of the general meaning and objects of the constitution, it should be found inconsistent with the literal import...possible, be construed according to the spirit of the act (6 Cranch, 307). When, therefore, every part of this vast system of practice is bronght into action,... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...with reason and good discretion." i If upon examination the general meaning and object of the statute be found inconsistent with the literal import of any...section must, if possible, be construed according to that purpose. But to warrant the change of the sense, according to the natural reading, to accommodate... | |
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If upon examination the general meaning and object of the statute be found inconsistent with the literal import of any particular clause or section, such clause or section must, if possible, be construed according to that purpose. 
