| United States. Supreme Court - 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 - 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 - 1873 - 630 pages
...took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it have a right to resort to any source of information which...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 - 1873 - 668 pages
...resort to any source of information which in its nature is capable of conveying to the jndicial inind a clear and satisfactory answer to such question;...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." I am, then, of opinion that you are noi conclnded in your action in reference to the issue of the scrip... | |
| 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 - 1890 - 716 pages
...took efiect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges, who are called upon to decide it, have a right to resort to any source of information which...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." This is a broad statement, and, taken by itself, probably indicates a more general rule than was intended... | |
| 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 - 1897 - 598 pages
...took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it have a right to resort to any source of information which,...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. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1877 - 684 pages
...took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it have a right to resort to any source of information which...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... | |
| United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - 1877 - 1088 pages
...took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it have a right to resort to any source of information which...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 - 1877 - 882 pages
...took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it, have a right to resort 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 - 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... | |
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