 If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it...  Albany Law Journal - Page 271889Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 968 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the legislature has transcended the limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...adjudge, and thereby give effect to the constitution.' . . . This power of the courts, however, to declare invalid what they may deem an unreasonable legislative... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 722 pages
...the lives, health or safety of the poeple. In the course of a rather long opinion the court said : "If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of courts to so adjudge. * * * The keeping of liquors in his possession by a person, whether for himself... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 940 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the legislature has transcended the limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by fundamental law, it is the duty of courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the constitution."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 924 pages
...general welfare. . . . "(Quoting.) 'If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted to preserve public health, the public morals or the public safety, has no real or substantial relations to these objects or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it is... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 638 pages
...limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted for the protection of the public health, the public morals, or the public...give effect to the Constitution." Mugler v. Kansas City, 123 US «23, 8 Sup. Ct. 273, 31 L. Ed. 2UO. In Giozza v. Tiernan, 148 US «57, 13 Sup. Ct. 721,... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 648 pages
...welfare, and if a statute discloses no such purpose and has no real or substantial relation to these objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured...the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby to give effect to the Constitution. Only in cases, however, where the Legislature exceeds its powers,... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 648 pages
...enacted for the protection of the public health, the public morals, or public safety, has no real and substantial relation to those objects, or is a palpable...invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, or such ordinance is being enforced in a way so as to discriminate against some of the citizens, it... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 820 pages
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the Legislature has transcended the limits of its authority. If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution. "Keeping in view these principles, as governing the relations of the judicial and legislative departments... | |
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