 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 2090 pages
...them that they succeed in raising a doubt." Legal Tender Cases, 12 Wall. 4.57, 531, 20 L. Ed. 287. "Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. * * * The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 764 pages
...conformed rather closely to the view expressed by Chief Justice Waite in the Sinking Fund Cases : " Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt." ' The courts still repeat expressions of this character, but it is undoubtedly true that they have... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1134 pages
...Dec. Dig. $ 209.»] 13. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (§ 48*)— CONSTRUCTION IN FAVOR OF CONSTITUTIONALITY. Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity...of a statute, and this continues until the contrary ig shown beyond a rational doubt. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent Dig.... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 770 pages
...reviewed by that high tribunal. It is declared by the Supreme Court in the Sinking Fund cases " that every possible presumption is in favor of the validity...this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a reasonable doubt." (99 US, 718.) Whatever may be thought of the validity of the reasoning by which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1204 pages
...constitutionality." The same rule was announced and emphasized by Mr. Chief Justice Waite in this language: "Every possible presumption is In favor of the validity...this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a reasonable doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1052 pages
...that state prohibitin the manufacture of oleomargarine. In considering the case the court said that every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute until the contrary is shown beyond a reasonable doubt; and the question whether the manufacture of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1888 - 864 pages
...presumption," Chief Justice Waite said, speaking for the court in Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 700, 718, "is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this...until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. Opinion of the Court. One -branch of the government cannot encroach on the. domain of another without... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1888 - 894 pages
...this declaration should never be made except in a clear case. Every possible presumption is in tavor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until...the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One brandi of the government cannot encroach on the dominion of another without danger. The safety of cur... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...presumption," Chief Justice Waite said, speaking for the court in Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 700, 718, " is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rntionnl doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger.... | |
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One branch of the government [the judiciary] cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule. 
