 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1916 - 634 страница
...Statutes, sec. 73. At section 295, the same author says : Rep.] April Terra, 1916. not intended, a construction may be put upon it, which modifies the...the words, and even the structure of the sentence, (a) This is done, sometimes, by giving an unusual meaning to particular words; sometimes by altering... | |
 | Sir Peter Benson Maxwell - 1875 - 500 страница
...or injustice, presumably not intended, a construction has been sometimes put upon it, which modified the meaning of the words, and even the structure of the sentence (a). Sometimes an unusual meaning has been given to particular words ; sometimes their collocation... | |
 | 1912 - 1164 страница
...enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship, or injustice, presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the...words, and even the structure of the sentence. This may be done by departing from the rules of grammar ; by giving an unusual meaning to particular words;... | |
 | 1910 - 1190 страница
...meaning to particular words ; sometimes by altering their collocation; or by rejecting them together; or by interpolating other words — under the influence,...Legislature could not possibly have intended what its words signify, and that the modifications thus made are mere corrections of careless language and really... | |
 | 1909 - 1338 страница
...enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship, or Injustice presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the...interpolating other words, under the influence, no douht, of an irresistible conviction that the Legislature could not possibly have iutenued what its... | |
 | 1917 - 1312 страница
...enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, bardship, or injustice presumably not intended, 'a construction may be put upon it which modifies the meaning of the words and even the structure o£ tlic sentence. This is done sometimes by giving an unusual meanins to particular words, sometimes... | |
 | Gustav Adolf Endlich - 1888 - 970 страница
...enactment, dr to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it, which modifies the...the words, and even the structure of the sentence (a). This is done, sometimes, by giving (a) Beeper Alderson, B.,in Atty- Wright v. Williams, 1 M. &... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - 1894 - 964 страница
...of the enactment, to inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, not presumably intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the...of the sentence. This is done sometimes by giving unusual meaning to particular words; sometimes by altering their collocation, or by rejecting them... | |
 | 1894 - 1224 страница
...hardship or Injustice, not presumably intended,— a construction may be put upon it which moditics the meaning of the words, and even the structure of the sentence. This is done sometimes by giving unusual meaning to particular words, sometimes by altering tb.eir collocation, or by rejecting them... | |
 | 1908 - 252 страница
...is quite true that in interpreting a statute, to meet the obvious intention of the Legislature , " a construction may be put upon it which modifies the...the words and even the structure of the sentence" (See Maxwell on the Interpretation of Statutes, Chapter IX), but that is allowed only where the Court... | |
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Where the language of a statute, in its ordinary meaning and grammatical construction, leads to a manifest contradiction of the apparent purpose of the enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, presumably not intended, a... 
