 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1890 - 1014 Seiten
...the presumption does not hold good in the particular case, nothing will remain except to enforce it. "Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it...have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is 1 People r. Morrell, 21 Wend. 563 ; 2 CampMI, J., in People ». Blodgett, Newell i: People, 7 NT 9;... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1890 - 756 Seiten
...on Con., p. 220). These words would seem to be plain and unambiguous, and where this is the case, '' the legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is left for construction" (ib., p. 195). Reading the words under consider ation, " had the benefit of the homestead law, " according... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1891 - 858 Seiten
...presumption does not hold good in the particular case, nothing will remain except to enforce it. "When a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed...and consequently no room is left for construction." Cooley's Con. Lim. 54 and 62, and authorities there cited. In the case of Perry v. The Commonwealth,... | |
 | 1891 - 634 Seiten
...authorities. The Supreme Court of the United States says concerning the construction of statutes : When the law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed...consequently no room is left for •construction. Sedgwick, in his work on " Statutory and Constitutional Law," says : It is not allowable to interpret what has... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1891 - 836 Seiten
...the courts.5 Whether the law be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be held 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 pari materia, the evident intention is... | |
 | John Tyler Christian - 1891 - 272 Seiten
...unambiguous, whether it be expressed in genera! or limited terms, the legislators should be interpreted to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. Possible or probable meanings, where one is plainly declared in the instrument itself, the courts are... | |
 | 1891 - 648 Seiten
...is more firinly established or rests on a more secure foundation, than the rule which declares, when a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, that the legislature shall be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed," and again that the... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - 1893 - 1176 Seiten
...mischief intended to be remedied In US v. Fisher, 2 Cranch (US) 399, Washington, J., s;iid: "Where a ¡aw is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed...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 different... | |
 | 1893 - 1326 Seiten
...courts, and applicable to constitutions an well as etatutes, that where the language of the Instrument is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terras, the framers thereof should be intended to mean wbat they have plainly «x pressed ; and consequently... | |
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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 consequently no room is left for construction. 
