 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1953 - 874 pages
...doctrine of construction is in accord with the long-heeded admonition of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall that "an act of congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains . . . ." The Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch 64, 118. See The Nereide, 9 Cranch 388, 423; MacLeod v. United... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...Fairf. 118; 9 Greenl. 140; 6 Greenl. 112; 3Greenl.326; 3 Venn. 507; 3 S. & R. 1«9 ; 4 Greenl. 140. An act of Congress ought never to be construed to...'law of nations, if any other possible construction remain. Murray v. The Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch, 64. In construing the statutes of a state, the Supreme... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 896 pages
...England have been of opinion, that relaxing the construction of the statute of frauds ought not to bo extended further than it has already been carried...; 2 Cond. Rep. 95. An act of Congress ought never tobe construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains ; and consequently... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 1096 pages
...treaty and the public law. In 2 Cranch, p. 64, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that— " An act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations, if any other possible construction remains." The same doctrine is laid down, by the same court, in the case of Talbot & Seaman, 1 Cranch, p. 1.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1858 - 868 pages
...and Murray vs. Schooner Charming Betsy, 2 Cr. R., 118, the Supreme Court lay it down as a rule, that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations ifany other possiWeconstructionremaius. This rule commends itself both by its wisdom and its justice,... | |
 | Brinton Coxe - Constitutional law - 1893 - 446 pages
...from the opinion of the US Supreme Court in Murray v. the Charming Betsey, delivered by CJ Marshall : "An act of Congress " ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations il "any other possible construction remains :" 2 Cranch, 118.] This conclusion was not reached without... | |
 | 1899 - 976 pages
...Tex. 106. 2 Cr. 64-126, 2 L. 208, MURRAY v. THE CHARMlNG BETSEY. Construction of acts of congress.— An act of congress ought never to be construed to...nations, if any other possible construction remains, p. 118. Cited and applied in opinion rendered by Appleton and Kent, JJ., to house of representatives,... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law and relations - 1906 - 1036 pages
...obligatory on those nations who have adopted it." Chase, J., in Ware v. Hylton (1796), 3 Dallas, 199, 227. "An act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains." Marshall, CJ, Murray v. Schooner Charming Betsey (1804), 2 Cranch, 64, 118. See also Talbot «. Seeman,... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1080 pages
...business which Congress could not be supposed to have prohibited, unless the intent was plain. 2. That an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other construction were possible, and consequently should not be construed to violate neutral rights or commerce.... | |
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an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains... 
