Tylee v. Hyde

Citations

• 60 Fla. 389

Syllabus

<p>1. In construing and applying a statute, the language used, the subject regulated, the purpose designed to be accomplished and the means adopted for accomplishing the purpose should be considered to ascertain the true and lawful legislative intent which alone has the force of law. -</p> <p>2. The object of the statutory requirement that publication be made of notices of the election -called to authorize the issue of county bonds, is to apprise the general public of the county of the matter to be determined by the election. This may be accomplished with reasonable certainty and completeness by publication in newspapers devoted to the publication of current news in general that are circulated among all classes of the people, without the aid of publications devoted chiefly or wholly to the purposes of those persons who belong to some organization, society, race, nationality or other class constituting only a portion of the entire general public.</p> <p>3. Considering the object designed and the practical means of accomplishing the object, the manifest legislative intent in the requirement of section 788 of the General Statutes of 1906, that the notice “shall be published in the several newspapers printed in the county” was to include only such newspapers as are devoted to the publication of current news in general and are circulated among all classes of the people, and not to include publications designed chiefly or wholly for the purposes of only a portion of the entire public.</p> <p>4. The English language is the means recognized by our law for communication and information; and while a paper printed in a foreign language may be a newspaper, it may not be within the purview of a statute requiring the publication of legal notices designed for the information of all the people, where the statute contains nothing to indicate an intention to include such a publication.</p> <p>5. Section 788 of the General Statutes of 1906 requires publication only in “newspapers prin