| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1806 - 476 pages
...contemplates those debtors only who are accountable for public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is, left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from ether... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 558 pages
...construction ex viscuibus actis. The same author says in the same page, "where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. But if from a view of the whole law, or other laws in... | |
| George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 626 pages
...the court. The general rule is that where the words of a statute are unambiguous and plain, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have expressed. 2 Cranch, 386, 399. Another rule in the construction of statutes is, that a legislative... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 624 pages
...a law is plain and unamSiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the 1'ierai im legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other... | |
| Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...be used in a particular sense. Adams v. Wood, 2 Cranch, 341.^ {Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...inferred that the intent of the legislature was otherwise.(a) And where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed ; and in such case there is no room for construction. But if from a view of the whole law, the evident intention... | |
| South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 616 pages
...Cra. 355, as superseding all other rules. It is, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the Legislature...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently there is no room left for constructioi^k The only remaining question is whether peas are... | |
| Attorneys general's opinions - 1851 - 1232 pages
...giving the rule, in the case of the United States vs. Fisher, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and that in such a case there is no room for construction. They hare annexed to this rule this single qualification... | |
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