 | 1920 - 1116 str.
...burden in perpetuity. In default of 'clear and definite language,' we followed the settled rule that 'a statute must be construed, if fairly possible,...unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score." United States v. .Tin Fuey Hoy, 241 US 394, 401 [36 Sup. Ct 658, 659 (60 L. Ed. 1001, Ann. Cas. 1917D,... | |
 | United States. Courts - 1928 - 1244 str.
...presented, and it, therefore, becomes our duty, as this Court has frequently said, to construe it " if fairly possible, so as to avoid not only the conclusion...unconstitutional but also grave doubts upon that score." Panama RR Co. v. Johnson, 264 US 375. Shortly stated, the statute provides that wilful disobedience... | |
 | United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue - 1917 - 308 str.
...legislature, and that section 8 means all that it says, taking its words in their plain, literal sense. A statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so...unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score. United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co. (213 US, 366, 408). If we could know judicially that no opium... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1919 - 190 str.
...v. Farbwerke-Hoechst Co., 240 Fed. 671, 1917.) A statute must be so construed, if fairly possible, as to avoid not only the conclusion that it is unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score. This court can not assume to know judicially that no opium is produced in this country; nor is it warranted... | |
 | New York (State) - 1920 - 784 str.
...annulment * * *. In default of * clear and definite language,' we followed the settled rule that ' a statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so...unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score.' " In section 184 we find the clear and definite language which was lacking in the Quinby case. We conclude... | |
 | 1920 - 734 str.
...done, a grave constitutional question would be raised, and the familiar principle was reiterated that a statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so...unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score. It is not open to dispute that Congress may levy a tax upon one who sells anything, the selling of... | |
 | New York (State). Courts, Francis Blaine Delehanty (Reporter), Austin B. Griffin (Reporter), Robert George Scherer (Reporter), Edward Jordan Dimock (Reporter), Joseph Albert Lawson (Reporter), Charles Cook Lester (Reporter), William Van Rensselaer Erving (Reporter), Louis J. Rezzemini (Reporter) - 1920 - 832 str.
...burden in perpetuity. In default of ' clear and definite language,' we followed the settled rule that ' a statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so...unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score.' (United States v. Jin Puey May, 241 US 394, 401 ; Tauza v. Susquehmina Coal Co., 220 NY 259, 267)."... | |
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A statute must be construed, if fairly possible, so as to avoid not only the conclusion that it is unconstitutional, but also grave doubts upon that score. 
