 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 1266 pages
...constitutional provisions for the security of persons and property, should be liberally construed. " A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy and leads to depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2058 pages
...made for the court by Mr. Justice Bradley in Boyd v. US, 110 US (>1G, 035, (« Sup. Ct. 53iï. that 'it is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional...citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be "obsta principiis." ' But the power of a court to make an order cart-ins with... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2170 pages
...which are equally applicable to the prohibition here upon the power of the state, that : "A close, literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy,...leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it were more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of the constitutional... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their...to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizens and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be obsta principlls." While... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 1078 pages
...protection of personal rights of the citizen, that "A close, literal, construction deprives them of half of their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it were more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of the constitutional... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1066 pages
...liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and lends to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more In Bound than In substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their...citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon their motto should be 'obsta principiis.' " We must regard it as a mere lapse that the legislature... | |
 | Grafton and Coös Bar Association - Bar associations - 1898 - 692 pages
...declared by the courts, and we reaffirm the declaration in Boyd v. United States, 116 US 616, 635, that ' it is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional...citizen and against any stealthy encroachments thereon.' But the power of a court to. make an order carries with it the equal power to punish for disobedience... | |
 | Criminal law - 1888 - 672 pages
...constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their...efficacy and leads to gradual depreciation of the right." The indictment must be quashed, and the case must be resubmitted to another grand jury — if possible,... | |
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This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation... 
