 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Criminal law - 1912 - 792 pages
...effect to its principles, and accomplish the ends of government. Hunt v. State, 7 Tex. Cr. App. 212. The object of construction as applied to a written...to the intent of the people in. adopting it. In the construction of written laws, it is the intent of the law maker that is to be enforced, which intent... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1320 pages
...they are to be taken in their technical signification." Section 16, Black, Interpretation of Laws. "The object of construction as applied to a written...written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced." Cooley, Const. Lim. 69. Does operating a well drill on the surface, even though... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 824 pages
...construction alone." Fox z: McDonald, 101 Ala. 51, 13 So. 416, 418. "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,... | |
 | Texas. Legislature. Senate - Legislative journals - 1914 - 484 pages
...Morton vs. Gordon (Balham) page 399. With reference to the object of construction Judge Cooley says: "The object of construction as applied to a written...Constitution is to give effect to the intent of the people adopting it. * * * But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself. It is to be presumed that... | |
 | Texas. Legislature. House, Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives - Law - 1914 - 580 pages
...Morton vs. Gordon (Balham), page 399. With reference to the object of construction Judge Cooley says: "The object of construction as applied to a written...Constitution is to give effect to the intent of the people adopting it. * * * But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself. It is to be presumed that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1042 pages
...seq.), lays down the rule of construction of statutes and Constitutions In the following language: "The object of construction, as applied to a written...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... | |
 | Harry Yandell Benedict - 1917 - 886 pages
...principles of construction are stated, in the belief that they are regarded as sound by courts and lawyers: The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the Intent of the people in adopting it. To ascertain such intent, the construction must be based upon an •examination, of the whole instrument... | |
 | Joseph Wheless - 1917 - 1112 pages
...of Bristol, 109 Tenn. 315, 70 SW 1031. 8. Real intention to control. The object of construction of a written constitution is to give effect to the intent of the people In adopting it, but this intent la to be found in the instrument itself; and it is to be presumed, unless an examination... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 650 pages
...prohibit specified acts as being performed by public servants. 3. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — CONSTRUCTION. The object of construction, as applied to a written...effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. which intent is to be found in the instrument itself, as it is to be presumed that language has been... | |
 | Reports - 1919 - 242 pages
...Commonwealth vs. Wise, 216 Pa., 152, the Supreme Court said: "In construing a constitution, the object is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. Cooley's Const. Lim., 7th Ed. 89. This is to be ascertained from the instrument itself, and by giving... | |
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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. 
