 | 1844 - 888 str.
...FROM THE LANGUAGE USED IN THE ACT ITSELF, COMPARING IT, WHEN ANY AMBIGUITV EXISTS, WITH THE LAWS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AND LOOKING, IF NECESSARY, TO THE PUBLIC HISTORY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH IT WAS PASSED." — Supreme Court, US, 3 Howard, 24. Again, we are told by the Federalist, 83, and the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 852 str.
...motives or reasons assigned bythem for supporting or opposing amendments that were offered. The law as it passed is the will of the majority of both houses,...is spoken is in the act itself; and we must gather then- intention from the language there used, comparing it, when any ambiguity exists, with the laws... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 916 str.
...motives, or reasons, or opinions, expressed by individual members of Congress in debate, but will look, if necessary, to the public history of the times in which it was passed. Aldridge et al. с. Williams, 3 Howard, 1. An act of Congress imposing a duty upon imports,... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 906 str.
...motives, or reasons, or opinions, expressed by individual members of Congress in debate, but will look, if necessary, to the public history of the times in which it was passed. Aldridge et al. v. Williams, 3 Howard, 1. An act of Congress imposing a duty upon imports,... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 896 str.
...motives, or reasons, or opinions, expressed by individual members of Congress in debate, but will look, if necessary, to the public history of the times in which it was passed. Aldridge etal. ».Williams, 3 Howard, 1. An act of Congress imposing a duty upon imports,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1858 - 998 str.
...Aldridge vs. Williams, (3 How., 1,) Chief Justice Taney said: " The law as it passed is the will of a majority of both Houses ; and the only mode in which...is spoken is in the act itself ; and we must gather the intention from the language there used." In Wilkinson vs. Lelond, (2 Pet., 627, p. 661,) Story,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1860 - 888 str.
...reasons assigned by them for supporting or opposing amendments that were offered. The law, as it is passed, is the will of the majority of both houses,...is spoken is in the act itself, and we must gather the intention from the language there used. ' ' Independent of the high authority of this decision,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1860 - 888 str.
...reasons assigned by them for supporting or opposing amendments that were offered. The law, as it is passed, is the will of the majority of both houses,...is spoken is in the act itself, and we must gather the intention from the language there used. ' ' Independent of the high authority of this decision,... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 str.
...reasons assigned by them, for supporting or opposing amendments that were offered. The la\v, as it passed, is the will of the majority of both houses;...and the only mode in which that will is spoken, is the act itself; and the intention of the law must be gathered from the language there used, comparing... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1861 - 704 str.
...passage. "We must gather the intention of Congress from the language used in the law, comparing it, where ambiguity exists, with the laws upon the same subject,...necessary, to the public history of the times in which it was passed." Aldridge v. Williams, 3 Howard, 1, 24. Bank of Penn. v. the Commonwealth, 7 (Harris) Penn.... | |
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The law as it passed is the will of the majority of both Houses, and the only mode in which that will is spoken is in the act itself ; and we must gather their intention from the language there used, comparing it when any ambiguity exists with the laws... 
