 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...or persons of an inferior rank, cannot by any general wards be extended to those of a superior. So a statute, treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons,...spiritual promotion, deans being the highest persons named (27), and bishops being of a still higher order (g). 3. Penal statutes must be construed strictly.... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...any general words be extended to those of a superior. So a statute, treating of " deans, " bendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual " promotion,"...3. Penal statutes must be construed strictly. Thus the »• statute* 3 Geo. IV. c. 71, for preventing cruelty to animals, twconitruwi enacted, " that... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...cannot by any general words be extended to those of a Miperior. So a statute treating of deans, parsons, and others having spiritual promotion, is held not to extend to bishops, 2 Rep. 46. Penal statutes. Common law gives place to statute. 4 Inst. 325. 4 Inst. 43. Of equity. though... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Southern States - 1858 - 772 pages
...to be in involuntary servitude for a term of years, and therefore of a superior rank to slaves, than "a statute treating of deans, prebendaries, parsons,...vicars, and others having spiritual promotion, is held to extend to bishops, though they have spiritual promotion, deans being the highest persons named,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 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,...to bishops, though they have spiritual promotion, deana being the highest persons named, and bishops being of a still higher ordür.(^) 3. Penal statutes... | |
 | George Frederick Wharton - Legal maxims - 1865 - 292 pages
...devised, as. " anv inferior rank, cannot by any general words be extended to those of a superior; as a statute treating of •• deans, prebendaries,...parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual promotion," would not extend to bishops, though the}' have spiritual promotion ; deans being the highest persons... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 926 pages
...superior. / So a statute, treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spirit? ual promotion" is held not to extend to bishops, though...spiritual promotion, deans being the highest persons named (27), and bishops being of a still higher order (g). 3. Penal statutes must be construed strictly.... | |
 | Piscator (pseud.) - Fishery law and legislation - 1868 - 84 pages
...road. 59 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 684 pages
...grnertl •words be extended to those of a superior. So a statute (13 Elii. c. 10), treating ol • deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having...named, and bishops being of a still higher order." 2 Bla. Comm. 88, 18 Ed. ; Archbishop ol Canterbury'i case. 2 Co. Rep. 46. (&) Professor Christian,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 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,...promotion, deans being the highest persons named, (16) and bishops being of a still higher order.(ff) 3. Penal statutes must be construed strictly.(17)... | |
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A statute,! which treats of 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, vicars, and others having spiritual promotion... 
