 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1530 pages
...giving the rule, in the case of the United States vs. Fisher, that where a law is plain and unambiguous, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and that in such a case there is no room for construction. TheyViave annexed to this rule this single qualification... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...otherwise, shall become insolvent, the debt due to the United States shall be first satisfied," £<c. It is conceded that the words " or other person" are...expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature sholild be intended . to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 558 pages
...meaning of 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...construction. But if from a view of the whole law, or other laws in pan materta, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the words... | |
 | George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 626 pages
...the court. The general rule is that where the words of a statute are unambiguous and plain, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have expressed. 2 Cranch, 386, 399. Another rule in the construction of statutes is, that a legislative... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 624 pages
...a law is plain and unamSiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, the 1'ierai im legislature should be intended to mean what they have...construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws \nparv materia, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the terms... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 816 pages
...is more firmly established, or rests 0:1 more secure foundations, than the rule which declares, when a law is plain and unambiguous, 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 is left for construction—... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...legislature, 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...construction. But if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws in part materia, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the terms... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 860 pages
...produce." 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 left for construction.... | |
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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. 
