 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 768 pages
...adopted, and it is not different at any subsequent time when the court has occasion to pass upon it. The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it." Said MARSHALL, CJ : " It would be dangerous in the extreme to infer from extrinsic circumstances that... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1028 pages
...adopted, and it ia not different at any subsequent time when the court has occasion to pass upon it. The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it." Said Marshall, CJ: "It would be dangerous in the extreme to infer from extrinsic circumstances that... | |
 | Louis Charles Wilson - Baptism - 1895 - 184 pages
...have a right to add to or take away from its meaning." (On Constit. Lim. 68, 70.) Mr. Cooly continues: "In the case of all written laws it is the intent of the law-giver that it is to be enforced. But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself. It is to be presumed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1220 pages
...construction." US v. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 358, 385. So, also, it is said in Cooley, Const. Lim. p. 55: "In the case of all written laws, It is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. But this intent is to be found in the iustrumt'ut itself. It is to be presumed that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1046 pages
...for the Inspection of any merchandise, manufacture or commodity." It is to be admitted broadly, that the object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting It; that their Intent is deduced, not only from the language of the particular provision to be construed,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 854 pages
...new relation, rather than in the old. The cardinal object of construing a constitutional provision is to ''give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it" Cooley, Const. Lim. (7th ed.) 89. "Narrow and technical reasoning is misplaced, when it is brought... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - Constitutional history - 1906 - 840 pages
...and it is not different at any subsequent time, when a court has occasion to pass upon it. The obiect of construction, as applied to a written constitution,...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it." Cooley, Const. Lim. 6th ed. 69, cited in Reilly v. Gray (1894) 77 Hun, 402, 409, 28 NY Supp. 811, in... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - Constitutional history - 1906 - 830 pages
...different at any subsequent time, when a court has occasion to pass upon it. The object of constructron, as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it." Cooley, Const. Lim. 6th ed. 69, crted in Reilly v. Gray (1894) 77 Hun, 402, 409, 28 NY Supp. 811, in... | |
 | Law - 1907 - 386 pages
...minority Commissioner, declined to accept the office and qualify. In construing a Constitution, the object is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. (Cooley's Const. Lim., 55.) This is to be ascertained from the instrument itself, and by giving to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1164 pages
...to the control of the state. 2 Kent, ยป275. [4, 5] In construing a written constitution, the object is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting...written laws, it is the Intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. But this Intent is to be found in the instrument itself. It Is to be presumed that... | |
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The object of construction, as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. 
