Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws (Classic Reprint)

The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory. In accordance with the general plan of the Hornbool? Series, these rules have been formulated somewhat after the manner of a code, expressed in brief black-letter paragraphs numbered consecutively throughout the bbok, and explained, developed, and illustrated in the subsidiary text. The cases cited in the original edition of this work were considered sufficient in number and variety to explain and enforce the doctrines set forth, attention being given to the more important and leading authorities and to those which had furnished the most forcible or striking illustrations of the a,pplication of the rules of construction in actual practice. But in view of the great and growing body of decisions upon this highly important subject, it has been deemed advisable, in the present edition, very largely to increase the number of citations. Practically all of the reported cases dealing with the general subject or any of its subdivisions, decided within the fifteen years which have elapsed since the first publication of the book, have been collected by the author and cited in their proper connections. These additions have also resulted in a complete and thorough revision of the entire work. Many parts of it have been greatly expanded and some wholly rewritten. Some changes have also been made in the arrangement of the several parts or sections of the book, for the sake of what now appears to the writer a more logical and orderly system of classification.
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