 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 568 pages
...government, whose duty it is to execute it, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded nor overturned, except for cogent reasons, and unless it is clear that such construction is erroneous. Heath v. Wallace, 138 US 573. This construction is conformable to the clear purpose of the legislature... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - Bounties, Military - 1902 - 600 pages
...construction of the statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight and should not be disregarded...overturned, except for cogent reasons, and unless it be clear that such construction is erroneous. as the period of pensionable service under the act of... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1904 - 832 pages
...department or officers whose duty it is to carry it into execution is entitled to great weight and will not be disregarded or overturned except for cogent reasons, and unless it is clear that such constructicn is erroneous.78 Says the supreme 71 Westbrook v. Miller, 50 Mich, pie, 97 11I App. 421;... | |
 | Charles Swayne - Trials (Impeachment) - 1905 - 746 pages
...construction of a statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded...overturned except for cogent reasons, and unless it be clear that such construction is erroneous. In other words, Mr. President, those legislative proceedings... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Insurance - Insurance - 1905 - 1346 pages
...construction of a statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded...overturned except for cogent reasons, and unless it be clear that, such construction is erroneous. Edwards vs. Darby, 12 Wheat. 206, 210; Tinted States... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce - Corporation law - 1909 - 1272 pages
...contemporaneous construction of those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight and should not be disregarded or overturned except for cogent reasons, or unless it is clear that such construction is erroneous.31 The doctrine of contemporaneous legislative... | |
 | Daniel Moreau Barringer, John Stokes Adams - Mining law - 1911 - 850 pages
...construction of a statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded...overturned except for cogent reasons, and unless it be clear that such construction is erroneous. United States v. Johnston. 124 US 236, 253, 8 Sup. Ct... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Expenditures, Public - 1914 - 942 pages
...construction of a statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded...overturned except for cogent reasons, and unless it be clear that such construction is erroneous." (See also 185 US, 244, and 189 US, 473.) period from... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1914 - 784 pages
...act of Congress by the executive officers charged with its enforcement, though not controlling, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded or overturned except for cogent reasons, nor unless it is clear that their interpretation was erroneous. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 840 pages
...construction of a statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight and should not be disregarded...overturned except for cogent reasons and unless it be clear that such construction is erroneous," Brown v. United States, 113 US, 671, and cases there... | |
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The contemporaneous construction of a. statute by those charged with its execution, especially when it has long prevailed, is entitled to great weight, and should not be disregarded or overturned except for cogent reasons, and unless it be clear that... 
