 We are of opinion, therefore, on principle as well as authority, that whenever a question arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called...  Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah - Page 603by Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1890Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 842 pages
...ENACTMENT OF. 8. Whenever a question arises as to the day when a statute was enacted, resort may be had to any source of information which in its nature is...a clear and satisfactory answer to such question, the resort being always first to that which in its nature is most appropriate, unless the then positive... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 840 pages
...statute takes effect, or of its precise turms, tiie judges who may be called upon to decide it may resort to any source of information which in its nature is capable of convoying to the judicial mind n clear and satisfactory answer to such question, always resorting first... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 630 pages
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." Cooley, in his work on Constitutional Limitations, p. 135, states what he understands to be the law... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1873 - 668 pages
...an anthenticated copy of an act of the State of Florida of the 19th of February, 1870 ; but that you have a right to resort to any source of information...which in its nature is capable of conveying to the jndicial mind an answer to the question, whether or not such an act was passed by the legislature of... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." Here is at least an assertion of the right of the court to take judicial cognizance of the very time... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 598 pages
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when the statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." In the case of People v. AlaJiancy, 13 Mich. 481, the supreme court of Michigan, speaking through Mr.... | |
 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - Electronic books - 1877 - 1088 pages
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such questions, always seeking first for that which in its nature is most appropriate, unless the positive... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 882 pages
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...to any source of information which in its nature is reliable and capable of conveying to the judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such question... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...statute took effect, or the precise terms of a statute, the court which is called upon to decide it has a right to resort to any source of information which...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule. Gardner v. Collector, 6 Wall. 499. When the president retains the bill, it is his action in retaining... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Action and defenses - 1880 - 928 pages
...of a statute, are in question, the judges have a right, iinless a different rule has been enacted, to resort to any source of information which, in its...judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such questions ; always. seeking first for that which, in its nature, is most appropriate.10 Hence they... | |
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