 Were the language of the statute obscure, instead of being clear, we should not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long- continued usage. There would be no safety for property or liberty if it could be successfully...  The Annual Register - Page 1721878Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1878 - 650 pages
...authoritative sanction. What, then, was the weight in law of such contemporaneous and continual usage ! The answer might be taken from the words of the learned...had been mistaken for centuries as to the practical moaning of an old Act of Parliament. Their lordships had entered at great length into this subject,... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1843 - 734 pages
...obscure, instead of being clear, we should not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and longcontinued usage. There...successfully contended that all lawyers and statesmen have been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of the Act of Parliament. We have been called... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1850 - 352 pages
...not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long continued usage. There would be no safety for property or liberty...successfully contended, that all lawyers and statesmen have been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of the Act of Parliament." Whatever becomes... | |
 | 1850 - 628 pages
...here cited several of such cases, which had been so heard and determined.) There would be no security for property or liberty if it could be successfully contended that all lawyers and all statesmen had been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of an old Act of Parliament. The... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1851 - 218 pages
...instead of being clear \ve should not be justified in differing from tlie construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long-continued usage. There...successfully contended that all lawyers and statesmen Lave been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of the Act of Parliament." the question as... | |
 | Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy - 1852 - 444 pages
...clear, we should not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by cotemporaneous and long-continued usage. There would be no safety...successfully contended that all lawyers and statesmen have been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of the Act of Parliament. We have been called... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee - 1865 - 476 pages
...not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long continued usage. There would be no safety for property or liberty...successfully contended that all lawyers and statesmen have been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of an old act of parliament. " We have been... | |
 | William Graham Brooke - 1872 - 352 pages
...justified in differing I860. from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long-established usage. There would be no safety for property or liberty,...successfully contended, that all Lawyers and Statesmen have been mistaken for centuries and a as to the true meaning of an old Act of Parliament. judg ' We... | |
 | 1877 - 896 pages
...obscure, instead of being clear, we should not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long-continued usage. There...successfully contended that all lawyers and statesmen have been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of an old Act of Parliament. Chief Baron Pollock,... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - 1877 - 236 pages
...obscure, instead of being clear, we should not be justified in differing from the construction put upon it by contemporaneous and long-continued usage. There...successfully contended that all lawyers and statesmen have been mistaken for centuries as to the true meaning of an old Act of Parliament." Chief Baron Pollock,... | |
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