| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...statute, treating of " deans, pre" bendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual pro" motion," is held not to extend to bishops, though they have...promotion ; deans being the highest persons named (17), and bishops being of a still higher orders;. 3. PENAL statutes must be construed strictly. Thus... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...2. A statute, which treats of things or persons of an inferior rank, cannot, by any general Vvords, be extended to those of a superior. Thus, a statute...bishops, though they have spiritual promotion, deans brins the highest persons named, and bishops being of a still higher order. 3. I'eual statutes must... | |
| Jacques Vanière - Fishing - 1809 - 158 pages
...of things or persons of an inferior rank, cannot by any general words be extended to a superior. So a statute treating of deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others, having spiritual promotions, is held not to extend to bishops, though they have spiritual promotion. Deans being the... | |
| Giles Jacob - Law - 1817 - 278 pages
...Nottingham's MSS. notes to Co. Lit. 2!0. a. Sed vide 1 Freem. 476. 2 Co. 46. 1 Bl. Cum. 88. So, also, where a statute treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars," and others having spiritual promotion ; deans being the highest persons named, bishops, who are of still a higher order, are not included... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...or persons of an inferior rank cannot, by any general words, be extended to those of a siir perior. Thus, a statute treating of" deans, prebendaries,...named, and bishops being of a still higher order. Penal statutes must be construed strictly : but statutes against frauds are to be liberally and beneficially... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...statute, treating of " deans, pre" bendaries, parsons, vicars, and others' having spiritual pro" motion?" is held not to extend to bishops, though they have...persons named, and bishops being of a still higher orderg. 3. PENAL statutes must be construed strictly. Thus the statute 1 Edw. VI. c. 12. having enacted... | |
| William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...statute, treating of " deans, pre" bendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual pro" motion" is held not to extend to bishops, though they have...persons named, and bishops being of a still higher orderg. 3. PENAL statutes must be construed strictly. Thus the statute 1 Edw.VI. c. 12. having enacted... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1826 - 768 pages
...those of n superior degree; under which rule as laid down in the Archbishop of Canterbury's case (a), a statute treating of deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual promotion, was held not to extend to bishops, although they had spiritual promotion; for if it had been otherwise... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1833 - 716 pages
...things or persons of an inferior rank cannot by any general words be extended to those of a superior. So a statute treating of ' deans, prebendaries, parsons,...named, and bishops being of a still higher order." That doctrine was quite correct where general words only were employed in the statute ; but in the... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...or persons of an inferior rank, cannot by any general words be extended to those of a superior. So a statute, treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons,...spiritual promotion; deans being the highest persons named (33), and bishops being of a still higher order (g). (e) 3 Rep. 7; Co Litt. 11, 42. (/) Co. Litt. 45;... | |
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