 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...cases which those words, in their ordinary acceptation, or in that sense in which the legislature has obviously used them, would comprehend. The intention...words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in 1820. the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 622 pages
...acceptation, or in that sense in which the legislature has obviously used them, would comprehend. Tho intention of the legislature is to be collected from...words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in i820. the words, there is no room for construction. The '*!?^~**~ case must be a strong one indeed,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1830 - 522 pages
...obviously used them, would comprehend. Their intention is to be collected from the words they employ. If there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The Court cannot depart 1830.] JUDGE BALDWIN'S CHARGE. 317 from the plain meaning of a penal act of Congress,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 712 pages
...cases which those words, in their ordinary acceptation, or in that sense in which the legislature has obviously used them, would comprehend. The intention...legislature is to be collected from the words they employ." In our judgment it was manifestly the intention of the legislature, from the words employed in the... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...legislature." He then states the rule and its qualifications as above stated by us, and then adds: " The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the words they (a) The United States v. Wilterberger, 5 Wheat. 76. use. Where there is no ambiguity in the words,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 684 pages
...taken in their natural sense, and ordinary signification and import [The United States t». Morris.] there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room...construction. The case must be a strong one indeed to justify a Court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 710 pages
...by the statute, The People r. New York Central Rail Road Company. sense in which the legislature has obviously used them, would comprehend." The intention...legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. When there is no ambiguity in the words there is no room for construction. In Sickles v. Sharp, (13... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 714 pages
...CONSTRUCTION. in interpreting statutes the words used are to be taken in their usual meaning, and if there is no ambiguity in the words there is no room for construction 31.2 what is included within clause I of section 2 of Municipal Court act, giving such courts jurisdiction... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 724 pages
...deem excesses or omissions in legislation, without the danger of doing vastly more mischief than good. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. To determine that a case is within the intention of the statute, its words must authorize us to say... | |
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The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words there is no room for construction. 
