 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1806 - 476 strani
...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 ether... | |
 | David James McCord, South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1826 - 670 strani
...Fisher, 2 Cranch 335-390, as supercedingallothers.lt is, thatwhere 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. Let it then be asked what did the legislature mean by... | |
 | 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 laws in fiari... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1832 - 558 strani
...construction ex viscuibus actis. The same author says in the same page, "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 other laws in... | |
 | 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 plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 strani
...be used in a particular sense. Adams v. Wood, 2 Cranch, 341.^ {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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 strani
...inferred that the intent of the legislature was otherwise.(a) And 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 in such case there is no room for construction. But if from a view of the whole law, the evident intention... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 strani
...Cra. 355, as superseding all other rules. It is, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the Legislature...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... | |
 | 1851 - 1232 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. They hare annexed to this rule this single qualification... | |
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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. 
