Matter of Petition of Sheffield Farms Co.

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• stating that the “true meaning” of statutory language must be derived from reading the words of the section involved “in connection with the entire enactment of which it is an integral part”
• cited with approval in Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of U.S. v. Young & Revel, Inc., 250 A.2d 509, 510 (Del. 1969)
• “[I]n England the ecclesiastical courts had exclusive jurisdiction of the dead and as a consequence the early common law refused to recognize a concept of property rights in the body of a deceased person[.]”

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