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... Southern Reporter - Page 3411923Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1928 - 1292 pages
...Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property are to be liberally construed, and it is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional...citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Evidence — admissibillty — obtained by Federal officer accompanying state search. 6. Where a Federal... | |
| Charles Evans Hughes - 1928 - 292 pages
...and literal construction deprives them of half of their efficacy and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments... | |
| Constitutional law - 1926 - 276 pages
...depreciation of the right, as if it con152 153 sisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights...stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be 'obsta principiis.' " And the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Block vs. Hirsh, 256... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1930 - 150 pages
...close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than...to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizens, and against any stealthy encroachment thereon. Their motto should be obsta principiis. We... | |
| Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 468 pages
..."deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it existed more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of...stealthy encroachments thereon. Their motto should be, obsta principiis." The cases under this head aptly illustrate what has so often been declared, that... | |
| Pennsylvania. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 936 pages
...close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than...citizen and against any stealthy encroachments thereon." Nor can it be successfully contended in this case that because the entry into the defendant's house... | |
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