 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 816 pages
...Co. Litt. Г9. n. of the Act is to be considered, which Dyer termed a 'Key to open 4 Inst. aso.Godb. the Minds of the Makers of the Act, and the Mischiefs which ther 4^Sac'lAbrll645 ¡"tended to redress. And the Preamble says, the Khig, roihirfrrVin. Abr. tit.... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer (s), is ' a key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress ' " (t). Mowing or It is, then, an established rule of construction, that an words.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 814 pages
...making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer (p), is " a key to open the minds of the makers of the Act, and the mischiefe which they intended to redress." (p) Stowel v. Lord Zouch, Plowden, 369. 1844. And, looking... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...statute and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer (Plowd. 369), " is a key to open the minds of the makers of the Act and the mischiefs which they intended to redress" (v). 2. The rule, of descent to English land is, that the heir must be born after... | |
 | Bengal (India). Sadr Nizāmat 'Adālat, J. Carrau - Criminal law - 1853 - 1020 pages
...of making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer, is ' a key to open the minds of the makers of the Act and the mischiefs ' which they intended to redress.' "* * Extract from Dwarris on the Statutes, from pp. 655 to 658. Preamble. —... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pages
...statute, and to have recourse to the preamble : which, according to Chief Justice Dyer, is, ' a thing to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischief which they intended to redress.' " In the case of Lyde v. Barnard,^ Baron Parke has thus expressed... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 572 pages
...making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice DYER,(6) is a ' key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress.'" The intention of the framers of this act, it is submitted, will be best carried... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...of making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer, is a key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress." f And so, where the preamble of an act passed on the petition of the corporation... | |
 | William Macpherson - Civil procedure - 1860 - 592 pages
...call in aid the ground and cause of making the Act, and to have recourse to the preamble, " as being a key to open the minds of the makers of the Act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress." One part of an Act ought to be so construed by another that the whole may, if... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 pages
...making the statute, and to have recourse to the " preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer, is a key " to open the minds of the makers of the Act, and the mischiefs " which they intended to redress." My Lords, I derive another proposition of law, (familiar, I dare say, also to... | |
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a key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress. 
