| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1917 - 806 σελίδες
...that particular for life, or so long as and whenever they might hold that office. It is a maxim that the object of construction, as applied to a written Constitution, is to ultimately ascertain and give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. The language here... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 σελίδες
...different at any subsequent time when a court has occasion to pass upon it.2 The Intent to govern. The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. But this... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 904 σελίδες
...different at any subsequent time when a court has occasion to pass upon it.2 The Intent to govern. The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is .the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. But this... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1875 - 678 σελίδες
...any subsequent time when a court has occasion to pass upon it." Again, the learned author says : " The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced." Another... | |
| 1875 - 788 σελίδες
...at any subsequent time when a court has occasion to pass upon it." Again the learned author says : " The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced." .... Another... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1875 - 694 σελίδες
...words are not to be taken in a narrow and technical sense, but in a general and popular sense, so as to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. The word " obligation " as here used, therefore means a debt contracted to be paid, or a duty to be... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1876 - 806 σελίδες
...? I have already quoted at large the said eighth section of the tenth article of the Constitution. "The object of construction, as applied to a written constitution is, to give effect to the intent of (he people in adopting it." It is a rule of construction that the whole constitution is to be examined,... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1878 - 974 σελίδες
...different at any subsequent time when a court has occasion to pass upon it.1 The Intent to govern. The object of construction, as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the tntent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the law-giver... | |
| Illinois - 1889 - 1108 σελίδες
...constitution above quoted was intended to be selfacting. It required no legislation to become operative. * * * The object of construction, as applied to a written constitution, is to givo effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. * * * In this case there is, in one sense,... | |
| Texas. Court of Appeals - 1880 - 742 σελίδες
...of the law-making power, in order to give it proper effect ; or, in the language of Judge Cooley, " the object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it." Cooley's Const. Lim. 55. True, this intent is to be found in the instrument itself; but here the rules... | |
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