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Sect. Interpretation. 46
The care of the unpracticed student, landlord and decided
by such guidance, claims comparison: I feel
it, and well not a little, rather than abandon him for want
of such lights as I can furnish, to the
darkness and distraction in which has guide our Au—
thor has left him plunged.
A law is made: it is made to in certain
end. The intention is manifest: to express that end It is improvidently penned: the effect is,
that there on is a case in which complying
literally with it's directions would not cor—
roberate to the attainment of that end.
It is plain therefore that the such compliance
was not intended to be enforced at the time
the law was making. Exact it not, then,
I say to the Judge: and to the subject,
suppose not that it will be exacted. To
this case the law is not to be interpreted
to extend. For to this case the professions will
of those who made the law never did extend. ☞
But a change has happened: circumstances are such
but not, the compliance of with the declara—
tions of the law in no case now answers
the intention: on in then to cease to pay & to is act Is then compliance to cease to
compliance? be exacted? By no means. For ☞ the legis—
lature itself has expressly declared, by cementing a time, that compliance
in all cases in which they mean it should
ever be exacted shall continue to be exacted for
that time. The expectation of men has fashioned
itself to the extract of that time: § was not
☞ The words a legislator are no otherwhere to
be regarded than in as much
as they are expressive
of his will
☞ [under statute law]
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