 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 700 pages
...reasonable basis but is essentially arbitrary. 9. SAME — when a classification is not arbitrary. A distinction in legislation is not arbitrary if any state of facts can reasonably be conceived that will sustain it, and the existence of that state of facts at the time... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1952 - 936 pages
...power. See Turner v. Maryland., 107 17. S. 38. When such legislative action "is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, there is a presumption of the existence of that state of facts, and one who assails the classification... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, James Sanders Guignard Richardson (Reporter), Robert Wallace Shand (Reporter), Cyprian Melanchton Efird (Reporter), William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray (Reporter), William Munro Shand (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 650 pages
...made with mathematical nicety. * * * "(3) When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived...would sustain it, the existence of that state of facts * * * must be assumed. "(4) One who assails the classification in such a law must carrry the burden... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1060 pages
...practice it results in some inequality. 3. When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived...it, the existence of that state of facts at the time tbe law was enacted must be assumed. 4. One who assails the classification in such a law must carry... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1140 pages
...practice It results in some inequality. (3) When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived...sustain it, the existence of that state of facts at the tiuie the law was enacted must be assumed. (4) One who assails the classification In such a law must... | |
 | New York (State) - Administrative courts - 1916 - 660 pages
...social or religious purposes. The United States Supreme Court has said within the last few weeks that " a. distinction in legislation is not arbitrary, if...reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, and the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed." It was in... | |
 | Isaac Max Rubinow - 1916 - 470 pages
...practice it results in some inequality. 3. When the classification in tuch a la/to is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, the existence of that tlate of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed. 4. One who assails the classification... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - Administrative law - 1917 - 1038 pages
...regarding their use as a means of advertising, and a business where they are not used, is pronounced. A distinction in legislation is not arbitrary, if...reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, and the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed. It makes... | |
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A distinction in legislation is not arbitrary if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, and the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed. 
