 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1953 - 874 pages
...with the long-heeded admonition of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall that "an act of congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains . . . ." The Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch 64, 118. See The Nereide, 9 Cranch 388, 423; MacLeod v. United... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1806 - 476 pages
...plain and necessary implication. • It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any...the law of nations as understood in this country. These principles are believed to be correct, and they ought to be kept in viev* in construing the act... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 444 pages
...construction remains, and, charming consequently, can never he construed to violate neu- u«isy tral rights, or to affect neutral commerce, further than...the law of nations as understood in this country. These principles are believed to be correct, and they ought to be kept in view in construing the act... | |
 | United States - Law - 1846 - 916 pages
...that opinion. Grant t). Naylor, 4 Cranch, 224 ; 2 Cond. Rep. 95. An act of Congress ought never tobe construed to violate the law of nations, if any other...the law of nations, as understood in this country. Murray в. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 64 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 358. When an act of Congress is revived... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...Greenl. 112; 3Greenl.326; 3 Venn. 507; 3 S. & R. 1«9 ; 4 Greenl. 140. An act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the 'law of nations, if any other possible construction remain. Murray v. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 64. In construing the statutes of a state, the Supreme... | |
 | United States - Law - 1848 - 880 pages
...in that opinion. Grant v. Naylor, 4 Cranch, 224 ; 2 Cond. Rep. 95. An act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any...the law of nations, as understood in this country. Murray c. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 64 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 358. When an act of Congress is revived... | |
 | United States - Law - 1850 - 906 pages
...'in that opinion. Grant v. Naylor, 4 Cranch, 224 ; 2 Cond. Rep. 95. An act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any...remains ; and consequently can never be construed to viotate neutral rights, or to affect neutral commerce, further than is warranted by the law of nations,... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 896 pages
...that opinion. Grant v. Naylor, 4 Cranch, 224 ; 2 Cond. Rep. 95. An act of Congress ought never tobe construed to violate the law of nations, if any other...commerce, further than is warranted by the law of nations, ae understood in this country. Murray r. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 64 ; 1 Cond. Rep. 358. When... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 1096 pages
...p. 64, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that— " An act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains." The same doctrine is laid down, by the same court, in the case of Talbot & Seaman, 1 Cranch, p. 1.... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...nations, if the construction of the act can possibly be otherwise; and, consequently, the law is never to be construed to violate neutral rights, or to affect...further than is warranted by the law of nations, as the same is understood in the United States. Murray v. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 64 ; 1 Cond.... | |
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It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains, and, consequently, can never be construed to violate neutral rights, or to affect neutral commerce,... 
