 | United States - 1846 - 916 sider
...qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview. Ibid. The court in construing an act will not consider the motives, or reasons, or opinions, expressed... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1887 - 562 sider
...qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the Legislature to be brought within its purview. Minis v. The United States, 15 Peters' Reports, 445. As before remarked, the general character of this... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 sider
...generality, or to exfa) Paynes v. Conner, 3 Bibb, 181 elude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview.(a) There has been a distinction in some of the books between a saving clause and a proviso... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - 402 sider
...to extending to cases not in'< tended by the legislature to be brought within jts purview. A '•f general rule, applicable to all future cases, would...its proper place in some distinct and independent en" actment." Indeed, that was a much stronger case than this, for in that case, the words used in... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 sider
...to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it as extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview; per Story, J., delivering judgment, 15 Peters, R. (US) 445. 5 An analogous difficulty may also arise... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 sider
...qualifv or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretatior of its extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview. Minis v. The United States, 15 Peters, 4S3. 51. The act of congress of the 26th May, 1824. entitled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 sider
...qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the legislature...within its purview. A general rule, applicable to [ * 446 ] all future cases, would most 'naturally be expected to find its proper place in some distinct... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1867 - 606 sider
...to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it as extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview. Minis ». The United States, 15 Peters, 445. plead the clause, and leave it to the adversary to show... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1909 - 732 sider
...clear and positive terms, and where the language admits of no other reasonable interpretation. * * * A general rule, applicable to all future cases, would...place in some distinct and independent enactment." Some suggestion of a permanent rule is found in the declaration of the proviso that Farmers' Bulletins... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 sider
...qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview. Minis v. The United States, 15 Peters, at p. 445. See 2 Lilly Ab. 493-496 ; Plowden, 361 ; Carter,... | |
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The office of a proviso, generally, is either to except something from the enacting clause, or to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the legislature... 
