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4482. LAW, Construing.—[further continued].
Ingenuity ever should
be exercised[in executive cases] in devising
constructions which may save to the public
the benefit of the law. Its intention is the important
thing; the means of attaining quite
subordinate.—
To W. H. Cabell. Washington ed. v, 159.
Ford ed., ix, 94.
(M.
1807)
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