 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 842 str.
...ENACTMENT OF. 8. Whenever a question arises as to the day when a statute was enacted, resort may be had to any source of information which in its nature is...a clear and satisfactory answer to such question, the resort being always first to that which in its nature is most appropriate, unless the then positive... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 840 str.
...statute takes effect, or of its precise turms, tiie judges who may be called upon to decide it may resort to any source of information which in its nature is capable of convoying to the judicial mind n clear and satisfactory answer to such question, always resorting first... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1873 - 630 str.
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." Cooley, in his work on Constitutional Limitations, p. 135, states what he understands to be the law... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1873 - 668 str.
...an anthenticated copy of an act of the State of Florida of the 19th of February, 1870 ; but that you have a right to resort to any source of information...which in its nature is capable of conveying to the jndicial mind an answer to the question, whether or not such an act was passed by the legislature of... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1897 - 598 str.
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when the statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." In the case of People v. AlaJiancy, 13 Mich. 481, the supreme court of Michigan, speaking through Mr.... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1890 - 716 str.
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute or of the time when a statute took efiect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges, who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." This is a broad statement, and, taken by itself, probably indicates a more general rule than was intended... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1877 - 684 str.
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...unless the positive law has enacted a different rule." Here is at least an assertion of the right of the court to take judicial cognizance of the very time... | |
 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - 1877 - 1088 str.
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such questions, always seeking first for that which in its nature is most appropriate, unless the positive... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1877 - 882 str.
...arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who...to any source of information which in its nature is reliable and capable of conveying to the judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such question... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1880 - 928 str.
...of a statute, are in question, the judges have a right, iinless a different rule has been enacted, to resort to any source of information which, in its...judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such questions ; always. seeking first for that which, in its nature, is most appropriate.10 Hence they... | |
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We are of opinion, therefore, on principle as well as authority, that whenever a question arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called... 
