 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...an end, is generally understood as employing any means calculated to 414 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT produce the end, and not as being confined to those...entirely unattainable. Such is the character of human State of Ma- , J , . . language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single definite... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thingis convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary...to an end, is generally understood as employing any mean« calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...Every one's mind will at once suggest to him many illustrations of the use of the word in this sense.2 To employ the means, necessary to an end, is generally...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. § 1244. Such is the character of human language, 1 Hamilton on Bank, 1 Hamilton's Works, 119, 120;... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...Every one's mind will at once suggest to him many illustrations of the use of the word in this sense. To employ the means, necessary to an end, is generally...produce the end, and not as being confined to those means alone, without which the end would be entirely unattainable. , § 609. Such is the character... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...Every one's mind will at once suggest to him many illustrations of the use of the word in this sense. 1 To employ the means, necessary to an end, is generally understood, as employing any means caleulated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means without which the end... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1851 - 570 pages
...exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally undei-stood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department thereof." To employ the means necessary to an end is generally...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. . . . The good sense of the public has pronounced, without hesitation, that the power of punishment... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...be nugatory. . . . Is it true that this is the sense in which the word "necessary" is always used? To employ the means necessary to an end Is generally...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. A thing may be necessary, very necessary, absolutely or indispensably necessary. If the word "necessary"... | |
 | Law - 1868 - 894 pages
...judge of what is both necessary and expedient on any subject within the range of its powers to act. " To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally...employing any means calculated to produce the end." Congress has employed a means in raising and supporting armies, in addition to pay, clothing, &c.,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. Marshall, CJ 4 Wheaton's R. 316, 413. See 1 Kent's Com. 253, 254, note. " Necessary" is an adjective... | |
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We think it does not. If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary... 
