 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...  The Pamphleteer - Page 197edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 pages
...11 iii 11 -/i • should take construed by another that the whole may, if possible, stand, effKtand that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence,...word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant ; and it is a sound general principle, in the exposition of statutes, that less regard is to be paid... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1876 - 650 pages
..."That one part of a statute must be so construed by another that the whole may, if possible, stand, and that if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence or word shall be superfluous, void or insignificant And it is a sound general principle in the exposition of statutes that less regard is to be paid to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1847 - 844 pages
...parts ; for the words and meaning of one part of a statute frequently lead to the sense of another." " A statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed,...word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant." That the patentee may have his patent extended, though the assignee held the entire interest in it,... | |
 | Virginia - 1854 - 860 pages
...out, as superfluous and meaningless, and thus violate the well established rule of construction, that "a statute ought upon the whole to be so construed,...word, shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant." The remaining enquiry involves the right of the respondents to transport the "cross travel." By which... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 pages
...requires it to be differently understood in the two places. But then there is another rule, — viz., that a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed,...word shall be superfluous, void or insignificant. That by testing the clause by this rule, give the word " entailment," as there used, the meaning contended... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1849 - 292 pages
...are, when used in a subsequent " statute, to be understood in the same sense." "A statute " ought in the whole to be so construed, that, if it can be " prevented, no clear sentence or word shall be superfluous, " void, or insignificant," as an authority for which,... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1849 - 292 pages
...are, when used .in a subsequent " statute, to be understood in the same sense." "A statute " ought in the whole to be so construed, that, if it can be " prevented, no clear sentence or word shall be superfluous, " void, or insignificant," as an authority for which,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1852 - 740 pages
...who was bound to put full faith in such return and sell unless the tax was paid. " A statute ought on the whole to be so construed, that if it can be prevented,...word shall be superfluous, void or insignificant." (4 Bac. Abr. tit. Statute, letter I. pI. 9.) If a purchaser of land sold for the non-payment of taxes... | |
 | Bengal (India). Sadr Nizāmat 'Adālat, J. Carrau - 1853 - 1020 pages
...their duty to give effect to the larger expressions. Indeed, a statute ought, upon the whole, to be construed that if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word, should be superfluous, void or msignificant." 185S. intent of Act XXIV. of 1843 came on, given judgment... | |
 | 1854 - 868 pages
...parts ; for the words and meaning of one part of a statute frequently lead to the sense of another." "A statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed,...word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant." That the patentee may have his patent extended, though the assignee held the entire interest in it,... | |
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