 | United States. Congress. House - 636 sider
...most clear and positive terms, and w/ierc the language admits of no other reasonable interpretation. The office of a proviso, generally, is either to except something from the enacting clause or to quality or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of 3t,... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 916 sider
...'ibid. The office of a proviso, generally, is cither to except something from the enacting clause, orto 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... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1887 - 562 sider
...original. The exception, however, may, and we think does point to the power contained in the proviso. The office of a proviso generally is either to except...Legislature to be brought within its purview. Minis v. The United States, 15 Peters' Reports, 445. As before remarked, the general character of this tribunal... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 906 sider
...insert limitations not called for by the sense, or the objects, or the mischiefs of the enactment. Ibid. The office of a proviso, generally, is either to except...exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extendmg to cases not intended by* the legislature to bo brought within its purview. Ibid. The... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 880 sider
...insert limitations not called for by the sense, or the objects, or the mischiefs of the enactment. Ibid. The office of a proviso, generally, is either to except...exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its purview. Ibid. The... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 sider
...enacting clause, or to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exfa) Paynes v. Conner, 3 Bibb, 181 elude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 sider
...out of the general thing mentioned in the statute. The object of a proviso to a statute is, to either except something from the enacting clause, or to qualify or restrain its generality, or to ex(a) Paynes v. Conner, 3 Bibb, 181 CHAP. XIV.] IN PAUI MATERI.i dude some possible ground of misin... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 sider
...always, that " <fec. See Proviso, supra. A clause or part of a clause in a statute, the office of which is either to except something from the enacting clause,...exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extent. Story, J., 15 Peters' R. 445. PRO (840) neglects to proceed to trial according to the course... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 sider
...Thibault v. Gibson, 12 Meeson i£• Welsby, 88. Id. 740. The office of a proviso, is either to accept something from the enacting clause, or to qualify...exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extent. Story, J., Minis v. United States, 15 Peters USR 445. Boon v. Juliet, 1 Seammon's * 1 Burr.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - 402 sider
...reasonable interpretation. The office " of a proviso generally, is either to except something frpm the enacting " clause or to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some pos^ sible ground of misinterpretation of it, as to extending to cases not in'< tended by the legislature... | |
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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... 
