| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...render such a judgment, would be unworthy of its station could it be unmindful of the solemn obligation which that station imposes. But it is not on slight...pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts are to be considered as void. The opposition between the constitution and the law should be such a... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1825 - 612 pages
...is not on slight implication and vague v. conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to ac have transcended its powers and its acts to be considered...The opposition between the constitution and the law must be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 682 pages
...render such a judgment, would be unworthy of its station, could it be unmindful of the solemn obligation which that station imposes. But, it is not on slight...transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered void. The opposition between the constitution and the law should be such, that the judge feels a clear... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 652 pages
...Shaw, in 13 Pick. 61, and Chief Justice Savage, in 1 Cowen 564, have, with one voice, declared that " it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture...transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear... | |
| Maryland - Bankruptcy - 1831 - 256 pages
...render such a judgment, would be unworthy of its station, could it be unmindful of the solemn obligation which that station imposes. But, it is not on slight...transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered void. The opposition between the constitution and the law should be such, that the judge feels a clear... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...duty to render such a judgment, would be unworthy of its station, could it be unmindful of the solemn obligations which that station imposes. But it is...the constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other. In this case the... | |
| Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 440 pages
...of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case. The opposition between the Constitution and the Law should be such, that the Judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other, 6 Cranch, 128.... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 704 pages
...use the emphatic words of the great judge who so long presided over that court (Judge Marshall), ' the opposition between the constitution and the law should be such, that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.' First Municipality... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 620 pages
...times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in a doubtful case. It is not on slight implication, and vague conjecture,...to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be declared void. The opposition between the Constitution, and the law, should be such, that the Judge... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 710 pages
...for its repugnance to the Constitution. And it is not on slight implications and vague conjectures that the Legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers. On the contrary, the opposition between the law and the Constitution should be such, that the judges... | |
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