 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1012 pages
...case, at least, there is a safe refuge for every lover of the constitution in the salutary rule that, where 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.... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 316 pages
...is more firmly established, or rests on more secure foundations, than the rule which declares when a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general or limited terms, that the legislature shall be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and, consequently,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1156 pages
...the presumption does not hold good in the particular case, nothing will remain except to enforce It. 'Where a law Is plain and unambiguous, whether it...and consequently no room Is left for construction.' Possible or even probable meanings, when one Is plainly declared in the instrument itself, the courts... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1885 - 632 pages
...the sense which they naturally present. This seems to be a case for the application of this maxim: "Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it...and consequently no room is left for construction." (Supreme Court of the United States, in 2 Cranch, 358, 399; see also Phillimore, vol. II, page 8-4,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1885 - 654 pages
...naturally present. This seems to be a case for the application of this maxim : " Where a law is plaiu and unambiguous, whether it be expressed in general...and consequently no room is left for construction." (Supreme Court of the United States, in 2 Crauch, 358, 399; see also Phillimore, vol. II, page 84,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1000 pages
...regard to their race, color or nationality. This law must be construed as any other would be construed. "Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it...terms, the. legislature should be intended to mean lohat they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room is left for construction:" Fisher v. Blight,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1164 pages
...the presumption does not hold good in the particular case, nothing will remain except to enforce it. 'Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it...and consequently no room is left for construction.' Possible or even probable meanings, when one is plainly declared in the Instrument itself, the courts... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 956 pages
...Wheat. 610 ; Bartlett v. Norris, 9 Port. (Ala.) 268. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature...and consequently no room is left for construction. United States \. Fisher, supra; Bartlett v. Norris, supra; Commonwealth v. Mandoll, 2 WNC 210. Revenue... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1274 pages
...law is plain and unambiguous," (say the Supreme Court, in United States vs. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 399,) "whether it be expressed in general or limited terms,...intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and no room is left for construction." Now, here the legislature have, in plain and unambiguous terms,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1234 pages
...effected by legislation and not judicial action. Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it he expressed in general or limited terms, the Legislature...they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room JB left for construction." Sedg. on Stat. and (Tonst. Law, 231. It is argued by the petitioners that... | |
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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. 
