| 1819 - 660 pages
...sense, would convey a meaning1 different from that which is obviously intended. It is essential to a just construction, that many words which import something...more mitigated sense — in that sense which common usagejustifies. ' The word "necessary" is of this description. It has not a fixed character peculiar... | |
| 1819 - 652 pages
...idea; and nothing is more common than to use words in a figurative sense. Almostallcompositionscontain words, which, taken in their rigorous sense, would...that which is obviously intended. It is essential to a just construction, thatmany words which import something excessive, sjiould be understood in a more... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...meaning, different from that, which is obviously intended. It is essential to just interpretation, that many words, which import something excessive,...should be understood in a more mitigated sense ; in a sense, which common usage justifies. The word "necessary" is of this description. It has not a fixed... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 pages
...situations, one single definite idea; and nothing is more common than to use words in a figurative sense. Almost all compositions contain words, which, taken...excessive, should be understood in a more mitigated sense—in that sense which common usage justifies. The word " necessary " is of this description.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 408 pages
...than to use words in a figurative, sense. Almost all composition» contain words, which, taken in a their rigorous sense, would convey a meaning different from that which is obviously intended. It is esseutial'to just construction, that many words which import something excessive, should be understood... | |
| 1890 - 986 pages
...the word " necessary" in this and in the Tenth Section of the First Article of the Constitution : — Almost all compositions contain words, which, taken...which common usage justifies. The word " necessary" ia of this description. It has not a fixed character, peculiar to itself. It admits of all degrees... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1896 - 812 pages
...situations, one single, definite idea ; and nothing is more common than to use words in a figurative sense. Almost all compositions contain words which, taken...which is obviously intended. It is essential to just constrnction that many words which import something excessive sheuld be understood in a more mitigated... | |
| 1898 - 1248 pages
...situations, one single definite idea, and nothing is more common than to use words In a figurative sense. Almost all compositions contain words which, taken...sense, would convey a meaning different from that obviously intended. It Is essential to Just construction that many words which import something excessive... | |
| Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1899 - 952 pages
....situations, one single definite idea; and nothing is more common than to use words in a figurative sense. Almost all compositions contain words which, taken...sense, would convey a meaning different from that obviously intended. It is essential to just construction that many words which import some thing excessive... | |
| United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs, Charles Edward Magoon - 1902 - 816 pages
...situations, one single definite idea; and nothing is more common than to use words in a figurative sense. Almost all compositions contain words which, taken...essential to just construction that many words which ini[>ort something excessive should be understood in a more mitigated sense — in that sense which... | |
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