| United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 748 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...as to justify those who expound the Constitution in making it an exception." If it be assumed that the opinion of the framers was that the only persons... | |
| Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - 1924 - 424 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd or...as to justify those who expound the Constitution in making it an exception. The founders of the college contracted, not merely for the perpetual application... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1924 - 468 σελίδες
...within the words of the rule, must be within its literal operation likewise, unless there be something so obviously absurd, or mischievous, or repugnant...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception." This maxim has been repeatedly sanctioned by the court, twice in recent cases.*0... | |
| Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1925 - 1436 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction, so obviously absurd or...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception. On what safe and intelligible ground, can this exception stand? There is no... | |
| John Bond Trevor - 1925 - 100 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction, so obviously absurd,...as to justify those who expound the constitution in marking it an exception." If it be assumed that the opinion of the framers was that the only persons... | |
| Frederick Dumont Smith - 1926 - 598 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception." Story assented, and wrote one of the best of his many opinions. Marshall,... | |
| 1914 - 554 σελίδες
...likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or mischevious, or repugnant to the general spirit of the instrument,...as to justify those who expound the Constitution in making it an exception." This Act of 18GIJ was described by the late Justice Brewer in the following... | |
| United States - 1928 - 750 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within Its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or...the general spirit of the instrument, as to justify 6. Transposing Words and Sentences. — While transposing the words and sentences of a law may sometimes... | |
| 1901 - 596 σελίδες
...States, they may amend the Constitution, but that those who expound the Constitution could do nothing " so obviously absurd or mischievous or repugnant to the general spirit of the instrument " as to give it " a construction not warranted by its words." In reply to the political argument that the framers... | |
| 1895 - 1242 σελίδες
...being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd or...as to Justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception." College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518. The act of 1893, it Is decided in this... | |
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