...such meaning; and clerical and typographical errors shall be disregarded when the intent is clear. 2. Words importing the singular number may extend and...several persons or things; words importing the plural may include the singular, and words importing the masculine gender, may be applied to females. 3. Words...

...twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number . ttiajAextend d inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during...good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive ; the word "person" may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations, and the reference to...

...of insane persons on the state. Her. Laws, c. 8, J 5, cl. 6, provides that, in construing statutes the words "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot,' non compos, lunatic, and insane and distracted person. Held, that persons committed to the School for Feeble-Minded are not insane...

...section of the Revised Statutes, however, provides that, in determining the meaning of said statutes, 'words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things.' There was, therefore, no necessity for retaining the omitted words. Тле section would be extended...

...that, in view of section 5513, subd. 2, providing that in the construction of statutes words purporting the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things, and in view of the rule that the construction must be favorable to persons seeking to redeem, the word...

...on the state. Rev. Laws, c. 8, § 5, cl. 6, provides that, in construing statutes the words "lusa'ne person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane and distracted person. Held, that persons committed to the School for Feeble-Minded are not insane...

...statutes or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February 25th, 1871, words mporting the singular number may extend and be applied to several...every idiot, non compos, lunatic and insane person; the word 'person' may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations and the reference to any...

...statutes or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February 25th, 1871, words mporting the singular number may extend and be applied to several...every idiot, non compos, lunatic and insane person; the word 'person' may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations and the reference to any...

...resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, : N =_ 29 3 8 | ) r k u>6 UN$ L 1Qq X * qŅpV U ޵..., x^ d( IbB ] 0 . z < ˑ _9 ð? } F 1 USCoMP.'16 insane person; the. word '"person" may extend and be applied to partnerships and;'ç,oïp'orations,...

...of 1867, which is the only law on the statute books defining an insane person, — the law reading, "the words 'insane person' and 'lunatic' shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane and distracted person," — commit anybody, as the judgment of the individual judge indicates, when...