 | 1819 - 660 pages
...when, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances. If we apply this principle of construction to any of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circum416 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT 1819. stances. If we apply this... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...provided for as they occur. To have declare:! that the best means shall not be used, but those al^ne without which the power given would be nugatory, would have been to deprive the leg slature of the capacity to avail itself of experience, to exorcise its reason, and to accommodate... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...one means, rather than another, is exclusively within its scope ? The same course of reasoning, which those alone, without which the power given would be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances. If we apply this principle of construction to any of... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for, as they occur. To have declared, that the best means shall not be used, but §431. Besides ; if the power only is given, without pointing out the means, how are we to ascertain,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances. If we apply this principle of construction to any of... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances. If we apply this principle of construction to any of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances. If we apply this principle of construction to any of... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances. . . . This clause, as construed by the State of Maryland,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 670 pages
...which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can best be provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be...itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances." 4 Wheat. 415. And again : "We admit, as all must admit,... | |
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... would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly,... 
