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" I think the proper course is in the first instance to examine the language of the statute and to ask what is its natural meaning, uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law... "
Marriage Considered from Legal and Ecclesiastical Viewpoints: In Connection ... - Page 98
by Lewis Stockton - 1912 - 113 pages
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Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising ...

United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1902 - 768 pages
...by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start in by inquiring how the law previously stood, and then assuming that...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. * * * I atn, of course, far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 81

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 748 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. If a statute intended to embody in a code a particular branch of the law is to be treated in this fashion,...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 92

Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that...will bear an interpretation in conformity with this view."10 This attitude towards a code is quite in keeping with the Anglo-American tradition that legislation...
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Journal of the Institute of Bankers, Volume 12

Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1891 - 840 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then assuming that...it was probably intended to leave it unaltered, to sec if the words of the enactment will bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. . . . I...
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The Anglo-Indian Codes, Volume 2

India - India - 1891 - 130 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view I am, of course, far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law for...
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Journal of the Institute of Bankers, Volume 13

Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1892 - 820 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood and then, assuming that...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. And this principle of interpretation is, he points out, particularly necessary in the case of a statute...
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A Treatise on the Construction and Effect of Statute Law: With Appendices ...

Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 758 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. If a (o) (1891) AC 107. Codification Acts. statute intended to embody in a code a particular branch...
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A Commentary on the Sale of Goods Act, 1893: With Illustrative Cases and ...

Walter Charles Alan Ker - Commercial law - 1894 - 436 pages
...uninfluenced by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. ... I am, of course, far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law...
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The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

Great Britain - Maritime law - 1895 - 800 pages
...by any considerations derived from the previous state of the law, and not to start with inquiringhow the law previously stood, and then, assuming that...to see if the words of the enactment will bear an interpretationin conformity with this view. . . . The purpose of such a statute surely was that on...
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Ruling Cases, Volume 3

Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1895 - 822 pages
...not to start with inquiring how the law previously stood, and then, assuming that it was [* 145] * probably intended to leave it unaltered, to see if...bear an interpretation in conformity with this view. If a statute, intended to embody in a code a particular branch of the law, is to be treated in this...
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