 The object of construction, as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the tntent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the law-giver that is to be enforced.  Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska - Stranica 17napisao/la Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1878Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1874 - Broj stranica: 648
...it is to be presumed that language has been employed with sufficient precision to convey the intent; and unless examination demonstrates that the presumption...hold good in the particular case, nothing will remain but to enforce it;" Cooley's Con. Lira. 55. Or, as MARSHALL, CJ, said, in Gibbons v. O</dm, 9 Wheat.... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - Broj stranica: 668
...as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that Argument for Respondent is to be enforced. But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself.... | |
 | 1875 - Broj stranica: 788
...as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced." .... Another cardinal rule of construction laid down by this author is, that the whole instrument is... | |
 | 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 - 1875 - Broj stranica: 678
...as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced." Another cardinal rule of construction laid down by this author is, that the whole instrument is to... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1878 - Broj stranica: 974
...as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the tntent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent...the presumption does not hold good in the particular csse, nothing will remain except to enforce it. " Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it... | |
 | 1913 - Broj stranica: 1236
...construction as applied to written constitutions is to give it the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it Is the intent of the law giver that is in force." Cooley, Const. Limitations, 69. Does operating a well drill on the surface,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1885 - Broj stranica: 846
...as applied to a written constitution, is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of all written laws, it is the intent of the law giver that is to be enforced; but this intent is to be found in the instrument itself. * * * That... | |
 | 1889 - Broj stranica: 956
...the intent of the people in adopting it. But this intent is to be found in the instrument itself, and it is to be presumed that language has been employed...with sufficient precision to convey it; and, unless the presumption does not hold good in the particular case, nothing will remain, except to enforce it;... | |
 | Marietta Holley - 1890 - Broj stranica: 466
...a written constitution is to give effect to the intent of the people in adopting it. In the case of written laws it is the intent of the lawgiver that is to be enforced. " But it must not be forgotten in construing our constitutions that in many particulars they are but the... | |
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