 Where a law Is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be Intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room Is left for construction.  The Ohio Law Journal - Page 2831881Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1806 - 476 pages
...the legislature, which contemplates those debtors only who are accountable for public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...the legislature, which contemplates those debtors only who are accountable for public money. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature sholild be intended . to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 558 pages
...the makers, and such construction ex viscuibus actis. The same author says in the same page, "where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 816 pages
...circumstances, before the act can take effect. Na principle is more firmly established, or rests 0:1 more secure foundations, than the rule which declares,...whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature shall be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 860 pages
...Smith oi St. Co. Cons. 693, sec. 548. And the supreme court of the United States have held that where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature must be intended to mean what it has plainly expressed and consequently no room is... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...those general expressions are to be used in a particular sense. Adams v. Wood, 2 Cranch, 341.^ {Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...—from whence it might be inferred that the intent of the legislature was otherwise.(a) And where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed ; and in such case there... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 738 pages
...admit of any interpretation other than that which they literally import. It has been said that " where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently, no room... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...effected by legislative, and not judicial action."f So, too, it is said, by the Supreme Court US : " Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room... | |
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