...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,...

...'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...

...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...the Legislature to be brought within its purview. Minis v. The United States, 15 Peters' Reports, 445. As before remarked, the general character of this...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...