 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...we are to seek is, the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed,...which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 542 pages
...we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the -words employed,...which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity and no contradiction... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 536 pages
...expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the word* employed, in the order and grammatical arrangement...which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded, the words embody a- definite meaning, which involves no absurdity and no contradiction... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...we are to seek is the. thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed, in the order of grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 744 pages
...Constitution, what we are to seek is, the thought which it expresses. To do this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed, in the order of arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 514 pages
...we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed,...which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...we are to seek is, the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed,...which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed, in the order of grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If thus regarded... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 1904 pages
...thing we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words employed,...which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity and no contradiction... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1038 pages
...constitution, the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words in the order of grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If the words convey a definite meaning, which 'Involves no absurdity, nor any contradiction of other... | |
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If thus regarded the words embody a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity, and no contradiction between different parts of the same writing, then that meaning apparent on the face of the instrument is the one which alone we are at liberty to say... 
