 This statute is in derogation of the common law, therefore it is not to be extended by implication or construction. "As a rule of exposition, statutes are to be construed in reference to the principles of the common law ; for it is not to be presumed...  Rapports Judiciaires de Québec - Page 1671880Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1148 pages
...later cases, in accordance with the cardinal rule of Interpretation "that it le not to be presumed that the Legislature Intended to make any innovation...common law further than the case absolutely required." Hooper v. Baltimore, 12 Md. 475. The disposition of the court wherever the question of the construction... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 884 pages
...construed in harmony with it. " It is not to be presumed," says an approved writer on the subject, " that the legislature intended to make any innovation...common law further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the act did not intend to make any alteration other than what is specified... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 956 pages
...law must do so in plain and direct terms. "It is not to be presumed," says this court in 12 Md. 475, "that the legislature intended to make any innovation...common law further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the act did not intend to make any alteration other than what is specified,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 976 pages
...must do so in plain and direct terms. " It is not to be presumed — says this court in 12 Md. 475 — that the legislature intended to make any innovation...common law further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the act did not intend to make any alteration other than what is specified,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 956 pages
...can be done without violation of its obvious meaning; for, say the cases, it is not to be presumed the Legislature intended to make any innovation upon...common law, further than the case absolutely required." [9] From an examlntion of the will before us, it apparently comes within the ternis of section 30.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 828 pages
...Statutes should be construed in reference to the principles of the common law; and it will not be presumed the legislature intended to make any innovation upon the common law further than the case absolutely requires, or further thau that specified or clearly implied. Smith et al. v. Laalach et al. 271. STATUTES.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1146 pages
...to be expounded as near to the use and reason of the prior law ns may be. It Is not to be presumed the legislature intended to make any innovation upon the common law further than absolutely required. Cadbury v. Duval, 10 Pa. St 205. This act was passed to remove doubts In the minds... | |
 | Oregon - 1887 - 50 pages
...are to be construed in reference to the principles of the common law; for it is not to be presumed that the legislature intended to make any innovation...common law further than the case absolutely required. The law rather infers that the Act did not intend to make any alteration other than what is specified,... | |
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