| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1806 - 476 halaman
...public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is, left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from ether laws in part mater/a, the evident intention is... | |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 halaman
...plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature sholild be intended . to mean what they have plainly expressed,...and consequently no room is left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws in fiari materia, the evident intention is... | |
| David James McCord, South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1826 - 670 halaman
...is, thatwhere a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is left for construction. Let it then be asked what did the legislature mean by the nse of those terms, and what do they plainly... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Bushrod Washington - 1826 - 620 halaman
...for public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, using either general or limited expressions, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and no room is left foe construction. But, if from a view of the whole law taken together, or from other... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1832 - 558 halaman
...same page, "where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is left for construction. But if from a view of the whole law, or other laws in pan materta, the evident intention is different... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - 1836 - 624 halaman
...a law is plain and unamSiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the 1'ierai im legislature should be intended to mean what they have...and consequently no room is left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws \nparv materia, the evident intention is different... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1840 - 816 halaman
...is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature shall be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed,...and consequently no room is left for construction— (U. States vs. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 358; Faw vs. Marsteller. 2 Cranch, 10; Paulina's Cargo vs. U. States,... | |
| Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 halaman
...Cranch, 341.^ {Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws in part materia, the evident intention is... | |
| South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 halaman
...rules. It is, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently there is no room left for constructioi^k The only remaining question is whether peas are included within... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 halaman
...otherwise.(a) And where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed ; and in such case there is no room for construction. But if from a view of the whole law, the evident intention... | |
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