 ... where a particular class is spoken of and general words follow, the class first mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis, with such class, the effect of general words,...  Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York - Sida 546efter New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - 1919Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - 1858 - 956 sidor
...shew that the word may be used in a limited sense, it is a general rule of construction that, where a particular class is spoken of, and general words...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis with such class. Thus, the words... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 sidor
...thing or person of a higher degree,"2 that is to say, " where a particular class [of persons or things] is spoken of, and general words follow, the class...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis with such class,"3 the effect... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Exchequer Division - 1877 - 524 sidor
...according to the wellknown rule of construction that " where a particular class of persons or things is spoken of, and general words follow, the class...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis with such class :" Broom's Leg.... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1879 - 924 sidor
...according to the well-known rula of construction that "where a particular class of persons or things is spoken of, and general words follow, the class...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis with such class": Broom's Leg.... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - 1883 - 906 sidor
...personan " ; and in respect thereof he says, that " where & -particular clans [of persons or things] is spoken of, and general words follow, the class first mentioned is to be takeu as the most comprehensive, aud the general words treated as referring to matters ejustem generis... | |
 | 1883 - 676 sidor
...of persons of an inferior rank cannot by any general word be so extended as to embrace a superior. The class first mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive. Blackstone's Intro., § 3;7B. <£C., 96; 4B. & S., 927; 6 A. & E., 729 ; 7 B. & C., 536; 1 M. & P.,... | |
 | 1891 - 1132 sidor
...higher degree. So it is a general rule of construction that when a particular class of persons or things Is spoken of, and general words follow, the class...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters cjusdem generis with such class. Thus the words... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1886 - 986 sidor
...upon the ground that, where a particular class of things is spoken of in the statute, and afterwards general words follow, the class first mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis with such class; citing Broom's... | |
 | 1887 - 542 sidor
...mentioned in section 1547. This view accords with that good rule of construction which requires that ' when a particular class is spoken of, and general...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated as referring to matters ejusdem generis with such class.' Broom Leg.... | |
 | 1912 - 1266 sidor
...the phrase "other papers." It is a very old and well-settled rule of statutory construction that : "When a particular class Is spoken of and general...mentioned is to be taken as the most comprehensive, and the general words treated (is referring to matters ejusdem generis." Cnegaray v. Mayor, etc., 13... | |
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