...appears preeminent: "The fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator, is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made, by signs the most natural and probable."34 Blackstone then proceeds to make statements that a modern...

...method, stating that "[t]he fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made, by signs the most natural and probable. And these signs are either the words, the context, the subject...

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...the original intentions of those who wrote the law, seeking to "interpret the will of the legislator" by "exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made," taking his words "in their usual and most known signification," establishing their meaning "from the...

...famous enunciations: "the fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator, is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made, by signs the most natural and probable. And these signs are either the words, the context, the subject...

...Blackstone counseled that "The fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator, is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made, by signs the most natural and probable."13 Responding to the exhortation to ascertain the intent of...

...'William Blackstone that "The fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator is by exploring his intentions at the time when the law was made, by signs the most natural and probable. And these signs are either the words, the context, the subject-matter,...