| Michigan - 1846 - 896 páginas
...importing the masculine gender only, may extend and be applied to females as well as males: 3. All words purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority:... | |
| Vermont - 1851 - 838 páginas
...the masculine gender only, may extend and be applied as well to females as to males.* SECT. 2. All words purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority.... | |
| Kentucky - 1851 - 548 páginas
..."justices," shall be construed as if the words "of the peace" followed. § 3. Words purporting to give authority to three or more public officers or other...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons. § 4. The words "personal representatives" shall be construed to include... | |
| Kentucky - 1851 - 544 páginas
..."justices," shall be construed as if the words "of the peace" followed. § 3. Words purporting to give authority to three or more public officers or other...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons. § 4. The words "personal representatives" shall be construed to include... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 páginas
...authority extends to all claims against the estate. And by Rev. St. 52, § 2, it is provided, that all words, purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers, or other persons, &c. This is not like the case of referees, appointed by the court ; for... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1897 - 796 páginas
...majority of the commissioners. This section antedates our present Constitution, and provides: "All words purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority."... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1853 - 702 páginas
...directors the general direction of all operations at fires. For by Rev. Sts. c. 2, § 6, clause 3d, " all words, purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority."... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 886 páginas
...importing the masculine gender only, may extend and be applied to females us well as males. Third — All words purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law. Fourth — The word... | |
| District of Columbia - 1857 - 788 páginas
...the law, shall be construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning. Third. Words purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority.... | |
| Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1857 - 828 páginas
...importing the masculine gender only, may extend and be applied to females as well as males ; 3. All words purporting to give a joint authority to three...construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority... | |
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