 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 páginas
...understood according to the natural and most obvious import of the langauge, without resorting to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of either limiting...Courts can not correct supposed errors, omissions or defects in legislation or vary by construction the contracts of parties. The office of interpretation... | |
 | 1876 - 816 páginas
...arbitrary punishment : Id. Statutes should be interpreted according to the most natural and obvious intent of their language, without resorting to subtle or...purpose of either limiting or extending their operation : Id. It is only in case the meaning of a statute is doubtful, that the courts are authorized to indulge... | |
 | 1882 - 1904 páginas
...understood according to the natural and most obvious import of the language, without resort to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation." Now the language of this act is plain and unambiguous. According to its grammatical construction, and... | |
 | 1884 - 774 páginas
...operation of the plain and unambiguous language of a statute. Hatiîtecker vs. Hairbcelxr, яирга. Statutes should be interpreted according to the most...purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. Ccai-fosK vs. State, 42 Md. 407. It is only in cases where the meaning of a statute is doubtful that... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1884 - 798 páginas
...read according to the most natural and obvious import of the language without resorting to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. ( Waller v. Harris, 20 Wend. 561 ; 17 Johns. 475 ; 13 NY 78 ; Newell v. People, 3 Seld. 97; McCloskey... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - 1885 - 698 páginas
...letter ; and a thing within the letter, is not within the statute, unless within the intention. e 9. Statutes should be interpreted according to the most...resorting to subtle or forced construction for the purpose either of limiting or extending their operation. Courts cannot correct supposed errors, omissions or... | |
 | Texas. Court of Appeals - 1886 - 840 páginas
...should be interpreted according to the most natural and obvious intent of their language, without resort to subtle or forced construction, for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. It is only in case where the meaning of a statute is doubtful that the Courts are authorized to indulge... | |
 | 1886 - 870 páginas
...natural and most obvious import of the language without resorting to subtle and forced constructions for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. Courts can not correct what they may deem either excesses or omissions in legislation, nor relieve against the occasionally... | |
 | 1887 - 542 páginas
...these rules is that statutes are to be read according to the natural and obvious import of the words without resorting to subtle or forced construction...purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. "The fundamental reason for this rule is to be found in the consideration that unless courts, as a... | |
 | 1920 - 1116 páginas
...understood according to the natural and most obvious import of the language, without resorting to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. Courts cannot correct supposed errors, omissions, or defects In legislation. * * * The office of interpretation... | |
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Statutes and contracts should be read and understood according to the natural and most obvious import of the language, without resorting to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation. 
