Shaw v. Railroad Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “No statute is to be construed as altering the common law, farther than its words import.”
• “No statute is to be construed as altering the common law further than its words import.”
• \No statute is to be construed as altering the common law further than its words import.\
• “No statute is to be construed as altering the common law, farther than its words import. It is not to be construed as making any innovation upon the common law which it does not fairly express.”
• “[T]he thief acquired no title and could not transfer good title to others regardless of their good faith and ignorance of the theft.”
• \[A statute] is not to be construed as making any innovation upon the common law which it does not fairly express.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).