 | Iowa State Bar Association, Iowa State Bar Association. Meeting - Bar associations - 1903 - 248 pages
...Where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the Legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is left for construction. * * * There ia even stronger reason for adhering to this idle in the cass.'of a constitution than in... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1070 pages
...of contracts or other written instruments. The rule is well expressed in Cooley, Const. Lim. p. 68: Where a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be...and, consequently, no room is left for construction. Possible, or even probable, meanings, when one is plainly declared in the instrument itself, the courts... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1904 - 832 pages
...the courts." Whether the law be expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature should be held to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently...construction ; but if, from a view of the whole law, or from other laws inpari materia, the evident intention is different from the literal import of the terms... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - Venezuela - 1904 - 1366 pages
...Where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are general or limited, the legislature should be intended to mean what they...and consequently no room is left, for construction. (Bouvier, Law Diet., "vol. 1, p. 1106, citing 130 U. 8., 671; 99 id.,' 72; 2 Cranch, 399.) Courts will... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - Venezuela - 1904 - 1146 pages
...Where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether those terms are ut'neral or limited, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and consequently no room i» lefl for construction. (Bouvier, Law Diet., "vol. 1, p. 1106, citing 130 U. 8., 671; 99 id.,' 72;... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - Venezuela - 1904 - 1150 pages
...Where a law is expressed in plain and unambiguous terms, whether t hose terms are general or limited, the legislature should be intended to mean what they have plainly expressed, and coiuvrfuenlly no пют is l-ft for ronttnirtiiin. (Bouvier, I^aw Diet., Vol. 1, p. 1106, citing 130... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1026 pages
...gg 292, 293; Lawson Usages & Customs, p. 453. "Where a law is plain and unambiguous •whether it is expressed in general or limited terms, the legislature...what they have plainly expressed, and consequently there is no room left for construction. United States v. Fisfier. 6 U. 8. 2 Cranch, a58, 2 L. cd. 304;... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 808 pages
...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 be...and consequently, no room is left for construction." (Fisher v. Blight, 2 Cranch, 358, 399.) " When the law is clear and explicit, and its provisions are... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1124 pages
...governed by what the legislature said, and presume that they said what they intended to say. "When a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed...and consequently no room is left for construction. Possible or even probable meanings, where oue is plainly declared in the instrument itself, the courts... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 838 pages
...language, and such language is broad and general in terms. It is the rule of construction that when a law is plain and unambiguous, whether it be expressed...general or limited terms, the legislature should be held to mean 4. what its words have 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. 
