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" We receive the construction given by the courts of the nation as the true sense of the law, and feel ourselves no more at liberty to depart from that construction than to depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United ... - Page 564
by Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827
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A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative ...

Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 974 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the Constitution and laws of the United States is received by all as the true construction ; and on tl,e same principle the construction given by the courts of the several States to the legislative acts...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 36

Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 968 pages
...construing its local statutes, and that their construction will be respected in every other country, says: " The construction given by the courts of the several...conflict with the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States." The same rule is upheld in Shelby v. Guy, 11 Wheat. 367, and it is laid down " that...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the ..., Book 6

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 796 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the constitution and laws of the United States is received...conflict with the constitution, laws,' or treaties of the United States. If, then, this question has been settled in Kentucky, we must suppose it to be rightly...
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The Southern Law Review, Volume 7

Law - 1882 - 992 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the Constitution and laws of the United States is received...unless they come in conflict with the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States." In 1862, in Leffingwell i>. Warren,1 the Supreme Court, speaking...
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The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and ..., Volume 7

Law - 1882 - 966 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the Constitution and laws of the United States is received...unless they come in conflict with the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States." In 1862, in Leffingwell v. Warren,1 the Supreme Court, speaking...
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The Works of James Abram Garfield, Volume 2

James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...ourselves no more at liberty to depart from that construction than to depart from the words of the statute On the same principle, the construction given by the...conflict with the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States." The later decisions of the Supreme Court are in accordance with this doctrine. (See...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the ..., Book 12

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1282 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle the construction given by this court to the gI 5 ` J맿g O4 ѝ xZ w O [ ` o +kw b O6} g ... H 8{ T 3 8 k C 5I B %aP _ # gXe ]ՏPj - s ];;ĄL 137*] the several States *to the legislative acts of those States is received as true, unless they...
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The Southern Law Review: And Chart of the Southern Law and Collection Union

Law - 1883 - 876 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the Constitution and laws of the United States is received...conflict with the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States." The views of many of those who were instrumental in framing the Constitution and in...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 760 pages
...legislative acts of that government. * * * On this principle the construction given by this court to the constitution and laws of the United States is received...same principle the construction given by the courts to the legislative acts of those states is received as true, unless they come in conflict with the...
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Commentaries on Law, Embracing Chapters on the Nature, the Source, and the ...

Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...depart from the words of the statute. On this principle, the construction given by this court to the constitution and laws of the United States is received...conflict with the constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States." Elniendorf p. Taylor, 10 Wh. 159. See to the same general effect, as cases in which...
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