A General Treatise on Statutes: Their Rules of Construction, and the Proper Boundaries of Legislation and of Judicial InterpretationW. Gould, 1885 - 693 páginas |
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... imports the supreme , absolute , uncontrollable power by which any State is governed . * * 1 Black . Com . 49 ; 2 Dallas R. 471 ; Story on Const . § 207 . NOTE 7. - Courts are not at liberty to inquire into the proper exercise of power ...
... imports the supreme , absolute , uncontrollable power by which any State is governed . * * 1 Black . Com . 49 ; 2 Dallas R. 471 ; Story on Const . § 207 . NOTE 7. - Courts are not at liberty to inquire into the proper exercise of power ...
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... import something more ; enlarging - restraining - qualify- ing - or in anywise varying the law , -do not apply . But this view of the case , consonant as it is to reason , and not unsuppor- ted by authority , a cannot fearlessly be ...
... import something more ; enlarging - restraining - qualify- ing - or in anywise varying the law , -do not apply . But this view of the case , consonant as it is to reason , and not unsuppor- ted by authority , a cannot fearlessly be ...
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... import . " a The mere title of an act is , therefore , a very insufficient and unsafe guide to assist us in ascertaining , even in the most general way , the scope and purport of the act ; yet when the mind labors to discover the ...
... import . " a The mere title of an act is , therefore , a very insufficient and unsafe guide to assist us in ascertaining , even in the most general way , the scope and purport of the act ; yet when the mind labors to discover the ...
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... import of the statute.a And to what is it properly a guide , to the meaning of the enact- ment ? No ; but to the intentions of the framer , which is only the first stage on the road , in the construction of statutes . " The influence of ...
... import of the statute.a And to what is it properly a guide , to the meaning of the enact- ment ? No ; but to the intentions of the framer , which is only the first stage on the road , in the construction of statutes . " The influence of ...
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... import as those used in other parts of the act , & c . , it is their duty to give effect to the larger expressions.a ... importing the plural number , shall extend 110 INTENTION OF STATUTES .
... import as those used in other parts of the act , & c . , it is their duty to give effect to the larger expressions.a ... importing the plural number , shall extend 110 INTENTION OF STATUTES .
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Página 365 - If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution, if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law disregarding the constitution or conformably to the constitution disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Página 557 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this state to all mankind ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state.
Página 469 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página 364 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Página 365 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Página 168 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Página 428 - That government can scarcely be deemed to be free where the rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred.
Página 44 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere is intrusted by the Constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 397 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Página 494 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service ; and the land and naval forces in time of war...