 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1806 - 476 strani
...meaning of the legislature, which contemplates those debtors only who are accountable for public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be...construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from ether laws in part mater/a, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 strani
...giving the rule, in the case of the United States vs. Fisher, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and that in such a case there is no room for construction. TheyViave annexed to this rule this single qualification... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 strani
...meaning of the legislature, which 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, the legislature sholild be intended . to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for... | |
 | David James McCord, South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1826 - 670 strani
...in the case of the U. States vs. Fisher, 2 Cranch 335-390, as supercedingallothers.lt is, thatwhere a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed...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 strani
...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... | |
 | George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1834 - 626 strani
...the court. The general rule is that where the words of a statute are unambiguous and plain, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have expressed. 2 Cranch, 386, 399. Another rule in the construction of statutes is, that a legislative... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1836 - 624 strani
...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...construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws \nparv materia, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the terms... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1840 - 816 strani
...is more firmly established, or rests 0:1 more secure foundations, than the rule which declares, when a law 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—... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 strani
...legislature, those general expressions are to be used in a particular sense. Adams v. Wood, 2 Cranch, 341.^ {Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it...construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws in part materia, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1851 - 860 strani
...produce." Smith oi St. Co. Cons. 693, sec. 548. And the supreme court of the United States have held that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be...expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature must be intended to mean what it has plainly expressed and consequently no room is left for construction.... | |
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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. 
