 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 1266 pages
...said, in declaring that constitutional provisions for the security of persons and property, should be liberally construed. " A close and literal construction...deprives them of half their efficacy and leads to depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2058 pages
...made for the court by Mr. Justice Bradley in Boyd v. US, 110 US (>1G, 035, (« Sup. Ct. 53iï. that 'it is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional...citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be "obsta principiis." ' But the power of a court to make an order cart-ins with... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2170 pages
...which are equally applicable to the prohibition here upon the power of the state, that : "A close, literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy,...leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it were more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of the constitutional... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction...to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizens and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be obsta principlls." While... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1066 pages
...adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and lends to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more In Bound than In substance. It... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 1078 pages
...protection of personal rights of the citizen, that "A close, literal, construction deprives them of half of their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it were more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of the constitutional... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction...citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon their motto should be 'obsta principiis.' " We must regard it as a mere lapse that the legislature... | |
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This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation... 
