 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 páginas
...accumulated by the experience, and ratified by the approbation of ages. The words of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious and ordinary signification and import ;c and if technical words are used, they are to be taken in a technical sense, unless it clearly... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 732 páginas
...accumulated by the experience, and ratified by the approbation of ages. The worda of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import ; (d) and if technical words are used, they are to be taken in a technical sense, unless it... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1858 - 780 páginas
...read precisely as though such term was not included in its provisions. * " The words of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import; and if technical words are used, they are to be taken in a technical sense." Kent's Com. Justice... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1858 - 1000 páginas
...tribunals. The following rules are the settled law of the land : First. The words of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import. Second. The meaning of statutes is to be derived from the statutes themselves, where there... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1858 - 812 páginas
...read precisely as though such term was not included in its provisions. " The words of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import; and if technical words are used, they are to be taken in a technical sense." Kent's Com. Justice... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - 1866 - 714 páginas
...be had to their general and popular use " ; and laid down by Kent, that "the words of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import." Blackstone says, " The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1869 - 642 páginas
...the language of the statute exception, for, in the interpretation or construction of statutes, words of common use are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious and ordinary signification and import. (1 Kenfs t'omm.,4:(i{2 ; Martin v. Hunter '# Lessee, 1 Wheaton, 304, 326 ; Hex v. Inhabitants... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1871 - 472 páginas
...legal acceptation." (Sedgwick, Stat. and Const. Law, 261.) So, Mr. Kent : " The words of a statute, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import ; and if technical words are used, they are to be taken in a technical sense, unless it clearly... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1871 - 636 páginas
...would be in violation of 'the well settled rule of interpretation and construction, that "words, if in common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary significations ; but if technical words are used, they are to be taken in a technical sense, unless... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - 1872 - 1084 páginas
...or presumed according to what is consonant to reason and good discretion. The words of a statute if of common use are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary significance and import ; and if technical words are used they are to be taken in a technical sense... | |
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Words, if of common use, are to be taken in their natural, plain, obvious, and ordinary signification... 
