 Whether we are considering an agreement between parties, a statute, or a constitution, with a view to its Interpretation, the thing we are to seek Is the thought which It expresses.  The Pacific Reporter - Page 791913Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1900 - 804 pages
...is plainly declared in the instrument itself, the courts are not at liberty to search for elsewhere. "Whether we are considering an agreement between parties,...constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing which we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 pages
...legislature — nothing adding thereto, nothing diminishing."§ The Court of Appeals in New York says, " Whether we are considering an agreement between parties,...to its interpretation, the thing we are to seek is, ike thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1922 - 700 pages
...University v. Hanberg, supra, on p. 189. See to the same effect, Citizens' Bank v. Parker, 192 US 73.) Whether we are considering an agreement "between parties,...which the framers of the instrument have placed them." (Newell v. People, 7 NY 9 ; 6 RCL 842. ) A contract must be construed as a whole, and the intention... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1917 - 724 pages
...Constitutional Limitations, (7th ed. p. 91,) is as follows: "To ascertain the meaning of the constitution the first resort in all cases is to the natural signification of the words used, in the order and grammatical arrangement in which the framers have placed them, and if, thus... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1862 - 612 pages
...agt. The People, (3 Seld., 97,) and the authorities cited by him. He says, in considering a statute with a view to its interpretation, the thing we are...to the natural signification of the words employed. If thus regarded, the words embody a definite meaning, which VOL. XXIII. 2 Downing agt. Marshall. involves... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - 1863 - 536 pages
...statute, or a constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing which we are to seek is tlid thought 'which it expresses. To ascertain this, the...in all cases is to the natural signification of the word* employed, in the order and grammatical arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - 1863 - 542 pages
...York, in the case of Newell vs. The People, 3 Selden, 97 : " Whether we are considering an agree, ment between parties, a statute, or a constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing which we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 pages
...in France, where authorities had no force, and the law of each case was what the judge of the case " Whether we are considering an agreement between parties,...constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing which we are to seek is the. thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1869 - 744 pages
...demands. When "we interpret a Constitution, what we are to seek is, the thought which it expresses. To do this, the first resort in all cases is to the natural...signification of the words employed, in the order of arrangement in which the framers of the instrument have placed them. If, thus regarded, the words... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 914 pages
...soon come to be regarded as of little [62] * " Whether we are considering an agreement between [* 57] parties, a statute, or a constitution, with a view to its interpretation, the thing whicli we are to seek is the thought which it expresses. To ascertain this, the first resort in all... | |
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