 | Peyton Randolph, Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1828 - 760 σελίδες
...seem to me very sound. " When the words of an act are doubtful and uncertain, it is proper to enquire what was the intent of the Legislature; but, it is...very dangerous for Judges to launch out too far, in searching into the intent of the Legislature, when they have expressed themselves in plain and clear... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 σελίδες
...find the meaning of the words. (I) Rules to be observed in the Construction of a Statute. Willes, " are doubtful and uncertain, it is proper to inquire...very dangerous for judges to launch out too far in searching into the intent of the legislature, when they have expressed themselves in plain and clear... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 σελίδες
...find and fix their true meaning. But I hold, at the eame time, with Lord Chief Justice Willes, " that it is very dangerous for judges to launch out too far in searching into the intent of the legislature, where they have expressed themselves in plain and clear... | |
 | George Ross - 1853 - 932 σελίδες
...manifestly within the words of it, and the words of the Act are plain and express. When the words of an Act are doubtful and uncertain, it is proper to inquire...very dangerous for Judges to launch out too far in searching into the intent of the Legislature, when they have expressed themselves in plain and clear... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1860 - 888 σελίδες
...of a statute are doubtful and uncertain,' says Lord Chief Justice Willis, 'it is proper to imagine what was the intent of the legislature, but it is very dangerous for judges to branch out too far in searching into the intent of the legislature where they have expressed themselves... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1860 - 888 σελίδες
...of a statute are doubtful and uncertain,' says Lord Chief Justice Willis, 'it is proper to imagine what was the intent of the legislature, but it is very dangerous for judges to branch out too far in searching into the intent of the legislature where they have expressed themselves... | |
 | James Barr Ames - 1881 - 932 σελίδες
...manifestly within the words of it, and the words of the act are plain and express. When the words of an act are doubtful and uncertain, it is proper to inquire...very dangerous for judges to launch out too far in searching into the intent of the legislature, when they have expressed themselves in plain and clear... | |
 | George Caines - 1885 - 616 σελίδες
...great and learned Lord Chief Justice Willes, *" it is proper to inquire what was the in- [*203] tent of the legislature, but it is very dangerous for judges to launch too far in searching into the intent of the legislature, when they have expressed themselves in clear... | |
 | 1886 - 824 σελίδες
...to it. In the construction of statutes, we are told from high authority, that " when the words ure doubtful and uncertain, it is proper to inquire what was the intent of the legislature; but where they have expressed themselves in plain and clear words, it is very dangerous for judges to launch... | |
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When the words of an act are doubtful and uncertain, it is proper to inquire what was the intent of the legislature. But it is very dangerous for judges to launch out too far in searching into the intent of the legislature, when they have expressed themselves... 
