 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 pages
...superior.27 So a statute, treating of •• deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others ha r ing spiritual promotion, ' is held not to extend to bishops,...persons named, and bishops being of a still higher .ordei'.(jr) o. Penal statutes must be construed strictly. Thus the statute 1 Edw. VI. c. 1-, having... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...and nottoÏÏeitend- °thers having spiritual promotion," is held not to extend to ed to superiors, bishops, though they have spiritual promotion ; deans...persons named, and bishops being of a still higher order(i). 8. A most effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 782 pages
...or persons of an inferior rank, cannot bj any general words be extended to those of a superior. So a statute, treating of "deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual promotion,'' il held not to extend to bishops, though they h ave spiritual promotion, deans being ;the highest persons... | |
 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - Electronic books - 1877 - 1088 pages
...depending upon conditions similar to the enumerated cases. The maxim applicable is noscitur a sociis. So a statute treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons,...named, and bishops being of a still higher order. (I Blackstone 7 s Cornai., 88.) The word "otherwise" here means "other causes; 77 but whether all other... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...others having spiritual promotion," have been respectively held not to extend to bishops; — abbots and deans being th'e highest persons named, and bishops being of a still higher order, b So where, in 2 Westm. cap. 47, " for the protection of the salmon fishery in the Humber, Ouse, Trent,... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1893 - 1174 pages
...of " deans, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual promotion," does not extend to bishops — deans being the highest persons named, and bishops being of a still higher rank.4 So an act levying duties upon " copper, brass, pewter, tin, and all other metals not enumerated,"... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 902 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,...named, and bishops being of a still higher order. s 3. Penal J statutes must be construed strictly. Thus the statute 1 Edw. VI., c. 12, having enacted... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 796 pages
...Co., 84 NY 565.) An early example of this construction is found in 2 Rep. 46, where it was held that a statute treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars and others having spiritual jurisdiction," did not extend to bishops. But this rule is riot without exception. The statute of Marlbridge... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1901 - 1032 pages
...the words " other cause " were con- u Westm. 2, ch. 4L strued to mean other kindred cause. abbots and deans being the highest persons named, and bishops being of a still higher order." l § 246b. Further of reasons. — The constructions explained in this sub-title accord with the ordinary... | |
 | George Frederick Wharton - Legal maxims - 1903 - 292 pages
...treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars', and others having spiritual promotion," would not extend to bishops, though they have spiritual promotion;...being, the highest persons named, and bishops being still higher. For, as to the King, it would be most mischievous to the public welfare if in him the... | |
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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... 
