 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 sider
...be restrained by particular words in a subsequent clause of the same statute, and the whole ought to be so construed, that, if it can be prevented, no...word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant. 4 Sac. Abr. 645. The declaration is bad in stating the body politic to be in custody of the marshal.... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Munford - 1812 - 692 sider
...statute was deemed necessary to be made in favour of the next of kin. It is a sound rule of construction that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word, shall be rendered superfluous, void, or insignificant.(a) In the case before us it (a}6Bac.SSo. is difficult... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1917 - 840 sider
...Railroad Co. v. Commissioners of Railroad Taxation, 37 XJL 228. The statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause,...word shall be superfluous, void or insignificant. James v. DuBois, 16 .VJL 286. To give the word "now" in section 2 its generally accepted meaning, which... | |
 | 1817 - 536 sider
...be a sufficient apology for their unconstitutionally. Secondly: "a statute, on the whole, ought to be so construed, that, if it can be prevented, no...clause, sentence or word shall be superfluous, void or insiijnificant." 1< Shower. 108. If the exposition adopted by the legislature, be the true one, the... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1839 - 658 sider
...Bac. Mr. tit. Stat. I.) But then there is another rule; viz. that a statute ought upon the whole, to be so construed, that if it can be prevented, no clause sentence or word,shall be superfluous,void or insignificant, (6 Bac. Mr. tit. Stat. 1. page 380. Section 2.) Let... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 572 sider
...it were, a key to open the understanding thereof : " Fifthly, " A statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed, that, if it can be prevented, no...word, shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant : " Sixthly, "' Where words in a statute are express, plain, and clear, the words ought to be understood... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1840 - 816 sider
...the bank. It is a cardinal rule in the construction of statutes, that they must be so interpreted, that if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence or word, shall be superfluous, void or In. significant— (Dwarris on Statutes, 658.) We think it entirely practicable, to give effect to... | |
 | Great Britain, William Mockler - 1842 - 304 sider
...a list of some of the principal exemptions under English and Irish Acts, (c) Post, p. l0. whole, to be so construed, that if it can be prevented, no clause,...word, shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant; and if a particular thing be given or limited in the preceding part of a Statute, this shall not be... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - 1842 - 830 sider
...be rejected, since a meaning can properly be given to it : and " a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed, that, if it can be prevented, no...word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant:" Bac. Abr. Statute (I). 2. " The rehearsal or preamble of the statute is a good means to find out the... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1844 - 820 sider
...with the rules, both of grammar and construction of statutes. " A statute ought, upon the " whole, to be so construed that if it can be prevented, no "...superfluous, void or " insignificant." 6 Bacon, 380, Wilson's Ed. t^Shower, 108. Rex v. Bcrchett, Hard. 344. To give it the construction contended for by... | |
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It is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that significance and effect shall, if possible, be accorded to every word. As early as in Bacon's Abridgment, sect. 2, it was said that 'a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can... 
