 | United States. Congress - 1844 - 440 str.
...of human life, adapted to common wants, designed foroommon use, and fitted for common undertakings. The people make them; the people adopt them; the people...help of common sense; and cannot be presumed to admit inlhcm any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary gloss." Sec. 401: ''•Where the words are plain... | |
 | William Ingersoll Bowditch - 1849 - 182 str.
...the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them ; the...any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary gloss." — Sec. 212 : "Where technical words are used, the technical meaning is to be applied to them, unless... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 str.
...the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use. and fitted for common understandings. The people make them; the people...in them any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary yloss." After divers observations upon the construction to be given to words which have different shades... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1915 - 718 str.
...the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use and fitted for common understandings. The people make them, the people...any recondite meaning or any extraordinary gloss." I shall bear in mind this expression in construing the constitution as applied to the act under consideration.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1874 - 654 str.
...fitted for common understandings. The people make them, the peoOpinion of the Court. pie adopt them, and the people must be supposed to read them with the help of common sense." Is the section of the Bill of Rights prospective in its effect, and inoperative without legislative... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 str.
...use, and. fitted ijtfr qommon uuderafcar , _ _ - __ i See. Ns w Enghuider, <M, 1 8fi8, p. 7 1 8. ings. The people make them ; the people adopt them ; the...any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary gloss." Some clergymen, no doubt, are deficient in common sense, and for that reason fall into great mistakes... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 772 str.
...the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them ; the...any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary gloss." The constitution, then, declares that new States may be admitted by Congress ; and the Constitution... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 str.
...the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them, the people...people must be supposed to read them, with the help of common-sense, and cannot be presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning or any extraordinary gloss.... | |
 | Texas. Court of Appeals - 1880 - 742 str.
...business of life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understanding. The people make them, the people adopt them, the people...cannot be presumed to admit in them any recondite moaning, or any extraordinary gloss." Story on Const., sect. 451. Or, as said by the court in Alabama,... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1882 - 1160 str.
...v. Snowden — Argument of Counsel. adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them, the people...read them with the help of common sense, and cannot he presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning, or any extraordinary gloss." Story on Const., §451.... | |
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... niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted... 
