The courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they to be misled by mere pretenses. They are at liberty — indeed, are under a solemn duty — to look at the substance of things, whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the legislature has transcended... Pittsburgh Legal Journal - Página 5321916Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1913 - 804 páginas
...protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety has no real or substantial relations to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the court to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution.' The principal constitutional... | |
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1952 - 936 páginas
...health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation Opinion of the Court to those objects, or is a palpable invasion of rights...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution. In Thompson v. Consolidated... | |
| 1890 - 548 páginas
...for that purpose. The conrt, in its opinion in Mugler v. Kansas, says : " The conrts are not bonnd by mere forms, nor are they to be misled by mere pretenses....invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, tt is the duty of the conrts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." 123 US 661.... | |
| 1889 - 546 páginas
...whenever they enter upon the inquiry whether the Legislature has transcended the limits of its anthority. If therefore a statute purporting to have been enacted...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." Mugler v. Kansas, 123 US 623,... | |
| 1892 - 582 páginas
...purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals or the public safety * * * is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it is the dnty of the courts to so adjndge, and thereby give effect to the Constitntion." Harlan, J., in Mngler... | |
| 1920 - 516 páginas
...therefore, the statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health or public morals or public safety has no real or substantial relation...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the Court so to adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." I have contented myself with... | |
| 1889 - 1878 páginas
...the state. There are, of necessity, limits beyond which legislation cannot, rightfully go. * * * The courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they to...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the constitution. * * * Undoubtedly the state,... | |
| 1889 - 948 páginas
...the state. There are, of necessity, limits beyond which legislation cannot rightfully go. * * * The courts are not bound by mere forms, nor are they to...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the constitution. * * * Undoubtedly the state,... | |
| 1908 - 2268 páginas
...have been enacted to protect the public morals has no real or substantial relation to that object, or is a palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it Is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution. [Ed. Note. — For cases In... | |
| Tennessee Bar Association - 1913 - 282 páginas
...the State. There are, of necessity, limits beyond which legislation cannot rightfully go. **»****# If, therefore, a statute purporting to have been enacted...secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the Courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution." In my opinion, under the fundamental... | |
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