 The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction.  Atlantic Reporter - Page 2941902Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1904 - 312 pages
...the legislatura has obviously used them, would comprehend. The intention United States v. Wiltbcrger. of the legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where +„-т there is no ambiguity in *the words, there is no room for construction. The ease mu.st bo a... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - 1904 - 1272 pages
...language." It is true that the legislature, not the court, must define crime, and ordain its punishment. The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the words employed, but in construing a statute, as in the case of other instruments, the court will look to... | |
 | Colorado. Court of Appeals - 1902 - 718 pages
...it is the legislature, not the court, which is to define the crime and ordain its punishment. * * * The intention of the legislature is to be collected...the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity hi the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a very strong one indeed which would... | |
 | William Hemingway - 1906 - 780 pages
...grammatical sense, unless a clear intention to use them in another sense can be collected from the will. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction 344 The words are to be construed in their plain and natural sense unless a different intention be... | |
 | John Campbell Allen - 1850 - 788 pages
...they could have very easily expressed it. It is a primary rule in the construction of statutes, that the intention of the Legislature is to be collected from the words of the statute. Dwarris on Statutes 694. And the Court must not, in order to give effect to what they... | |
 | United States. Courts - 1907 - 1088 pages
...acceptation, or in that sense in which the legislature has obviously used theni. would comprehend. The intention of the legislature is to be collected...in the words, there Is no room for construction." In United States v. Morris, 14 Pet. 464, 475, this court, speaking by Chief Justice Taney, said: "... | |
 | 1907 - 1252 pages
...ordinary acceptation, or in that sense in which the legislature has obviously used them, would comprehend. The intention of the legislature Is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is uo ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction." In United States v. Morris, 14 Pet.... | |
 | 1907 - 328 pages
...rather care must be taken that no one is brought within it who is not within its express language. To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize the Court to say so, but it is not admissible to carry the principle that a case which is within the... | |
 | 1908 - 1282 pages
...court in united States v. Wlltberger. 5 Wheat. (US) 76, 5 L. Ed. 37, Chief Justice Marshall said : "The intention of the Legislature Is to be collected...the words they employ. Where there Is no ambiguity 114 NW— 20 In the words, there Is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, Indeed,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1908 - 802 pages
...ordinary acceptation, or in that sense in which the legislature has obviously used them, would comprehend. The intention of the legislature is to be collected from the words they к employ. . . . The case must be a strong * one indeed which would justify a court in • departing... | |
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