 Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ... - Page 523by Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Philip Loring Spooner, Abram Daniel Smith, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - 1904Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1982 - 1050 pages
...Rep. No. 95-1174, pp. 4, 8 (1978). See also ante, at 264-265, n. 8. STEWART, J., dissenting 451U. 8. be a strong one indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words ... in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest." United States v. Wiltberger,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 620 pages
...words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in 1820. the words, there is no room for construction. The case, must be a strong one indeed, which would...justify a Court in departing from the plain meaning of erser. wor(js^ especially jn a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would jus_ tify a Court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest. To determine that a case is within... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...5 Wheat. 76. 109 use. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would...justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of the words, especially in penal acts, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a stron; one indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of the words, especially in peual acts, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest.... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would...plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest. To determine that a case is within... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...the words the} employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would...plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of reason that every man shofllcl be able to know certainly when he is guilty of a crime,1 statutes... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...Green. words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one indeed, which would...plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest." The United States v. Wiltberger,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would...plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest." Holding these familiar principles... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction. The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would...plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest. To determine that a case is within... | |
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