 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 802 pages
...v. McClain, 1 Bay, 93,' is now acknowledged to be the true one; which is, " that such a construction as will be consistent with justice, and the dictates...reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law, should be given." If, then, we may deviate from the strict letter of the law, and call to our aid the... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 724 pages
...was. We are, therefore, bound to give such construction to this enacting clause of the Act of 1788, as will be consistent with justice and the dictates...contemplation to make a forfeiture of the negroes in question, and subject the parties to so heavy a penalty for bringing slaves into the State, under the... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - Antitrust law - 1901 - 892 pages
...to give such a construction to the act of 1789 as will be consistent with justice and the doctrine of natural reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law." The supreme court of the United States has frequently referred to the controlling influence of certain... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 548 pages
...was. We are, therefore, bound to give such construction to this enacting clause of the Act of 1788, as will be consistent with justice and the dictates...contemplation to make a forfeiture of the negroes in question, and subject the parties to so heavy a penalty for bringing slaves into the State under the... | |
 | Hermann Nothnagel, Michael Joseph Rossbach - Pharmacology - 1914 - 732 pages
...to a reasonable construction. Whittock v. West, 26 Conn., 406. Statutes must be construed so as to be consistent with justice and the dictates of natural...reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law. Ham v. M' Claws and Wife, 1 Bay (S. C), 93. Courts will never adopt a construction that makes the statute... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - German language - 1916 - 706 pages
...and common reason are absolutely null and void." We are bound to give such a construction to the act "as will be consistent with justice and the dictates...reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law."4' In Virginia, where the natural rights philosophy was prevalent, Justice Wythe main" Ibid.,... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - Constitutional law - 1919 - 88 pages
...court, therefore, felt bound to give such a construction to the enacting clause as in its opinion was "consistent with justice, and the dictates of natural...though contrary to the strict letter of the law," and declared to be void statutes made against natural equity as also statutes made against Magna Charta.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1074 pages
...give such construction to this enacting clause of the act of 1788 [5 St. SO) (BC at Large, p. 88] ae will be consistent with justice and the dictates of...though contrary to the strict letter of the law." An act of 1712 (2 St at Large, p. 584, § 2) provided a statute of limitation of five years, "excepting... | |
 | 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 - 1839 - 612 pages
...McClain, 1 Bays' Reports, 93, is now acknowledged to be the true one; which is, " that such a construclion as will be consistent with justice, and the dictates...reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law, should be given." If, then, we may deviate froni the strict letter of the law, and call to our aid... | |
 | James L. Underwood - Law - 1986 - 220 pages
...was. We are, therefore, bound to give such a construction to this enacting clause of the act of 1788, as will be consistent with justice, and the dictates...contemplation to make a forfeiture of the negroes in question, and subject the parties to so heavy a penalty for bringing slaves into the state, under the... | |
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We are, therefore, bound to give such construction to this enacting clause of the Act of 1788, as will be consistent with justice and the dictates of natural reason, though contrary to the strict letter of the law... 