 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1871 - 702 pages
...the section. In this it runs counter to cardinal canons of construction. In the construction of a law every part of it must be viewed in connection with the whole, so as to make, if possible, all its parts harmonious. (1 Kent, 462). The intent of the law-maker is to be sought for.... | |
 | 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 - 1874 - 672 pages
...and a thing within the letter is not within the statute, unless within the intention.' Rule 12, Ib. ' In the construction of a statute, every part of it...and give a sensible and intelligent effect to each.' Rule 17, p. 145 : ' All statutes in pan materia arc to be read and construed together, as if they formed... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - 856 pages
...property of this District. One of the rules of interpretation which I now invoke Dwarris thus states : In the construction of a statute every part of it...in connection with the whole, so as to make all its parta harmonize, if possible, and to give a sensible and intelligible eft'ect to each. It is not to... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 pages
...to ascertain the intention of the legislature ; and, to attain this object, every part of a statute must be viewed in connection with the whole, so as to make all the parts harmonize, if practicable, and to give a sensible and intelligent effect to each ; and, then,... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1879 - 1096 pages
...interpretation laid down in Potter's Dwarris on Statutes, &c., 144, as established by the American courts: "ln the construction of a statute every part of it must...and give a sensible and intelligent effect to each." "lt is not to be presumed that the Legislature intended any part of a statute to be without meaning."... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Public Instruction - 1881 - 668 pages
...not the rule. All the provisions of this statute bearing upon this question should be read together. "In the construction of a statute, every part of it must be viewed in connection with the whole, so аз to make all of its parts harmonize, if practicable, and give a sensible and intelligent effect... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1881 - 942 pages
...judges so to construe the actas to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy. Dwarris Stat., 58. And in the construction of a statute, every part of it must be viewed with the whole, so as to make all its parts harmonize if practicable, and give a sensible and intelligent... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Public Instruction - 1881 - 670 pages
...not the rule. All the provisions of this statute hearing upon this question should be read together. "In the construction of a statute, every part of it must be Tiewed in connection with the whole, so as to make all of its parts harmonize, if practicable, and... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - 1881 - 494 pages
...be so expounded, if practicable, as to give some effect to every part of it " (e). "Every part is to be viewed in connection with the whole, so as to make all the parts harmonise, if practicable, and give a sensible and intelligible effect to each"(/). This... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1882 - 810 pages
...reference to a similar case as to Georgetown. This method is in accordance with the principle that "in the construction of a statute every part of it...and give a sensible and intelligent effect to each." (Potter's Dwarris, Stats, and Const , 144.) "The intention * * * is to be deduced from a view of the... | |
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In the construction of a statute, every part of it must be viewed in connection with the whole, so as to make all its parts harmonize, if practicable, and give a sensible and intelligent effect to each. 
