 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1806 - 476 pages
...money. 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...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 terms... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 444 pages
...money. 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...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 terms employed to... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 pages
...plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature sholild be intended . to mean what they have plainly expressed,...if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws in fiari materia, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the terms employe!... | |
 | David James McCord, South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1826 - 670 pages
...thatwhere 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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1832 - 558 pages
...page, "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...construction. But if from a view of the whole law, or other laws in pan materta, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the words... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1840 - 816 pages
...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— (U. States vs. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 358; Faw vs. Marsteller. 2 Cranch, 10; Paulina's Cargo vs. U. States,... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 pages
...341.^ {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...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 terms employed to... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 pages
...It is, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the Legislature should be 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 included within... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...And 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 in such case there is no room for construction. But if from a view of the whole law, the evident intention... | |
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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. 
