ON THE

RULES WHICH GOVERN

THE

INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION

OF

STATUTORY

AND

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

BY

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON THE MEASURE OF DAMAGES.

"Maximum interpretationis juridicæ mysterium.”

Heinecc. de Orig. Test. Fact. et Ex. XII. § ix.

NEW YORK:

JOHN S. VOORHIES, LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER,

No. 20 NASSAU STREET.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

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