 | United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton - 1816 - 614 pages
...local laws of a state, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history and situation of the country, in order to ascertain the reason, as well as the meaning, of many of the provisions in them, to enable a court to apply, with propriety, the different rules for... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 906 pages
...local laws of a state, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history and situation of the country, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing statutes.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1855 - 702 pages
...local laws of a State, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history and situation of the country, in order to ascertain the reason, as well as the meaning, of many of the provisions in them, to enable a court to apply, with propriety, the different rules for... | |
 | R. Peters - 1856 - 896 pages
...local laws of a state, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history and situation of the country, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing statutes.... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...local laws of a slate, it is frequently necessary to recur to the history and situation of the country, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of many of them, to enable a court to apply with propriety the different rules for construing «tatutes.... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1744 pages
...in United States v. UP IVy Co., 91 US 72, 79, " may with propriety recur to the history of the time when it was passed ; and this is frequently necessary,...well as the meaning of particular provisions in it." From the earliest period in the history of the state until the passage of the Pond law in 1882, the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1876 - 802 pages
...The act itself speaks the will of Congress, and this is to be ascertained from the language used. But courts, in construing a statute, may with propriety...well as the meaning of particular provisions in it. Aldridge v. Williams, 3 How. 24 ; Preston v. Browder, 1 Wheat. 120. rupture ; but, even if this fear... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...is to be ascertained from the language used. But courts may with propriety, in construing a statute, recur to the history of the times when it was passed,...well as the meaning of particular provisions in it. (Aldridge vs. Williams, 3 Howard, p. 24; Preston vs. Browder, I Wheaton, 120.) to the circumstances... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court, Arthur MacArthur - 1877 - 670 pages
...The act itself speaks the will of Congress, and this is to be ascertained from the language used. But courts, in construing a statute, may, with propriety,...well as the meaning of particular provisions in it." It cannot be considered as jndicial intrusion to remark that the history of the times points to the... | |
 | Pacific railroads - 1878 - 800 pages
...is to be ascertained from the language used. But courta may with propriety, in construing a statute, recur to the history of the times when it was passed, and this is frequently necessary iu order to ascertain the reason as well us the meaning of particular provisions in it. ( Aldridge... | |
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But courts, in construing a statute, may with propriety recur to the history of the times when it was passed; and this is frequently necessary, in order to ascertain the reason as well as the meaning of particular provisions in it. 
