 | Frank Sumner Rice, William Lawrence Clark - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 786 pages
...(Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 2 How. 197-93 [1844], STORY, J.; Magee v. O'Neill, 19 SC 185 [1882].) What is termed the " policy of the government," with...uncertain thing, upon which all sorts of opinions may be formed. It is a ground much too unstable upon which to rest the interpretation of a statute.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1488 pages
...said in Hadden v. liarney. 72 Ü. S. 6 Wall. 107, 111 [18: 518, 519]: -What is termed the policy ot the government with reference to any particular legislation...generally a very uncertain thing, upon which all sorts of opinion, each variant from the other, may be formed by different persons. It ¡sa ground much too unstable... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1052 pages
...Statutes, section 4 et seq., especially at section 5, where that writer, after saying: "What is called the policy of the government, with reference to any particular legislation, is said to be too unstable a foundation for the construction of a statute," introduces the following quotation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1434 pages
...officers shall Ix> corporate ajreiits of the township. De nn v. Reid, 10 Pet. 527, 9 L. ed. 520. Wh.it is termed the "policy" of the government with reference...uncertain thing, upon which all sorts of opinions, eachvariant from the other, may be formed by different persons. It is a ground much too unstable upon... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce - Corporation law - 1909 - 1272 pages
...Policy of Government, of Legislative Body or of Law — Public Policy — General Principles of Law. — What is termed the policy of the government with reference to any particular legislation is too unstable a ground upon which to rest the judgment of the court in the interpretation of statutes.42... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1294 pages
...arbitrary, or inconvenient the intention may be, the statute must receive its full effect. What is called the policy of the government with reference to any particular legislation is too unstable a foundation for the construction of a statute. The clear language of a statute can be... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1911 - 776 pages
...its passage, unless that results from some known state of embarrassment under the former law.84 And what is termed the policy of the government with reference to any particular legislation is declared to be too unstable a ground upon which to rest the judgment of the court in the interpretation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 768 pages
...respect it. They have no function to declare a public policy, nor to amend legislative enactments. "What is termed the policy of the Government with reference to any particular legislation," as this court has said, " is generally a very uncertain thing, upon which all sorts of opinions, each... | |
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What is termed the policy of the Government with reference to any particular legislation," as this court has said, "is generally a very uncertain thing, upon which all sorts of opinions, each variant from the other, may be formed by different persons.... 
