13 Ga. 441 | Ga. | 1853
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
“ Great regard,” says Sir E. Coke, “ ought, in construing a Statute, to be paid to the construction which the sages of the law who lived at the time, or soon after it was made, put upon it; because they were best able to judge the intention of the makers at the time when the law was made. 2 Inst. 11, 136, 181.