 | United States. Congress. House - 636 էջ
...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,... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 916 էջ
...'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... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1887 - 562 էջ
...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...generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the Legislature to be brought within... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 906 էջ
...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...generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extendmg to cases not intended by* the legislature to bo brought within its... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 880 էջ
...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...generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within its... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 էջ
...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... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 էջ
...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,...generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extent. Story, J., 15 Peters' R. 445. PRO (840) neglects to proceed to trial... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 էջ
...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...generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of its extent. Story, J., Minis v. United States, 15 Peters USR 445. Boon v. Juliet,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - 402 էջ
...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... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 էջ
...Lord Campbell, Gurly v. Gurly, 8 Cl. & Fin. 764. * The office of a proviso in an act of Parliament is either to except something from the enacting clause,...generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it as extending to cases not intended by the legislature to be brought within... | |
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The office of a proviso, generally, is either to except something from the enacting clause, or to qualify or restrain its generality, or to exclude some possible ground of misinterpretation of it, as extending to cases not intended by the legislature... 
