| 1897 - 1226 páginas
...the particular case, nothing will remain except to enforce it. 'Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether It be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction.' Possible or even probable meanings, when one is plainly... | |
| United States. Customs Court - 1961 - 714 páginas
...where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms whether those terms are general or limited, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. First inquiry here, therefore, must be whether the statute... | |
| 1918 - 314 páginas
..."Where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction" (Lake County v. Rollins, 130 US 662, 670, 9 S. Ct. 651,... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1875 - 734 páginas
...no ambiguity in the language, and no room for construction. " Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. Possible or even probable meanings, when one is plainly... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1910 - 718 páginas
...contemplates those debtors only who are accountable for public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...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... | |
| Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals - 1897 - 758 páginas
...where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. US v. Fisher, 2 C ranch., 358, 359; Doggett v. Railroad... | |
| Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1903 - 904 páginas
...The rule is well expressed in Cooley on Const. Lim., p. 68: "Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. Possible, or even probable, meaning, when one is plainly... | |
| David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - 1920 - 688 páginas
...legislation and not judicial action Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in genera! or limited terms, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction." Sedg. on Slot, and Const. Law, 231. Opinion. if it... | |
| United States. Department of the Treasury - 1936 - 1582 páginas
...where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. United States v. Fisher, 6 U. 8. 2 Cranch, 358, 399... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1916 - 644 páginas
...the particular case, nothing will remain except to enforce it. 'Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction.' Possible or even probable meanings, when one is plainly... | |
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