 | Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...only be obviated by adhering to the rule that ooustitntioual provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of hulf their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of tha right, as if it consisted more iu sound... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 1266 pages
...Bradley, speaking for the Supreme Court of the United States in a historic case said, in declaring that constitutional provisions for the security of...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 - 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
...only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close...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
...only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close...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... | |
 | Criminal law - 1888 - 672 pages
...only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close...efficacy and leads to gradual depreciation of the right." The indictment must be quashed, and the case must be resubmitted to another grand jury — if possible,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 636 pages
...only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close...deprives them of half their efficacy and leads to graduul depreciation of the right as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 658 pages
...liberally construed. A close and liberal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to a gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance." See, also, Campbell v. Holt, 115 US 620, and Davidson v. New Orleans, 96 ib. 97. Justice Bra'dley's... | |
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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... 
