 Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that where a statute is susceptible of two constructions, by one of which grave and doubtful constitutional questions arise and by the other of which such questions are avoided, our duty is to adopt the latter.  Railroad Reorganization - Page 183by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1946 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 2116 pages
...susceptible of a meaning which causes it not to be repugnant to the Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that, where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...duty is to adopt the latter. Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 211 US 407." It is the judgment of the court that the constitutionality of section... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 554 pages
...susceptible of a meaning, which causes it not to be repugnant to the Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...latter. Harriman v. Interstate Com. Comm., 211 US 407. Recurring to the text of the commodities clause, it is apparent that it disjunctively applies four... | |
 | Railroad law - 1910 - 872 pages
...susceptible of a meaning which causes it not to be repugnant to the Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...duty is to adopt the latter. Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 211 U. S'. 407, ante, 115, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 115. Recurring to the text of the... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 1170 pages
...susceptible of a meaning, which causes it not to be repugnant to the Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...questions are avoided, our duty is to adopt the latter." United States v. D. & H. Ry. Co., 213 US 366; 29 Sup" Ct. Rep. 527 ; 53 L. ed. 83t5. 7207 US 403; 28... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 986 pages
...the new corporation, such corporation might be dissolved by quo varranto. 4. Statutes: CONSTRUCTION. "Where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...questions are avoided, our duty is to adopt the latter." United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co., 213 US 366. 5. : : CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. While the legislature... | |
 | United States - Law - 1916 - 1266 pages
...susceptible of a meaning, which causes it not to be repugnant to the Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...questions are avoided, our duty is to adopt the latter." And Congress is presumed to legislate on a subject with full knowledge of the United States Supreme... | |
 | Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1256 pages
...susceptible of a meaning, which causes it not to be repugnant to the Constitution, the rule plainly must mean that where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...duty is to adopt the latter. Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 211 US 407, 53 L. ed. 253, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 115." United States ex rel. Atty Gen.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1921 - 688 pages
...respect than they seem to me, I should be led to adopt that construction because of the familiar rule that "where a statute is susceptible of two constructions,...questions are avoided, our duty is to adopt the latter. " United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co., 213 US 366, 408. For adoption of the construction urged by... | |
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