| United States. Customs Court - Customs administration - 1978 - 276 pages
...discovery of the purpose of the draftsmen of a statute * * *. There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to... | |
| United States - Naval law - 1945 - 712 pages
...1938. See also 39 Op: Atty. Gen. 385, 288, Hay '5, 1939.) "There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Banking and CurrencyCommittee - 1948 - 144 pages
...315 US 561,. 563, 86 L. Ed. 1026, 1028 ; US v. Fisher, 109 TJ. S. 143. There is no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. US v. American Trucking Associations, 310 US 534, 543,... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1949 - 674 pages
...particularly in a law drawn to meet many needs of a major occupation. "There is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes. Often these words are sufficient in and of themselves to... | |
| United States. Securities and Exchange Commission - Securities - 1953 - 1386 pages
...legislation. As stated by the United States Supreme Court : There Is, of course, no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes . . . When that meaning has led to absurd or futile results,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1958 - 1540 pages
...individual who might own several farms, and thereby, by working out some acreage reserve contract with <ine tenant farmer, preclude himself from participating...producer aggregating in excess of $3,000 regarding thel958 crops would be contrary to the restriction and, therefore, legally improper. However, in view... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Budget - 1958 - 1552 pages
...participating with other tenants on different farms, to the disadvantage of those other tenants.1' The primary question here involved is whether the...wishes ; and, on first examination of the provision, thPr would appear to be no doubt that payments to any one producer aggregating in excess of $3,000... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Natural resources - 1939 - 680 pages
...raised or presented during the hearings or debates in Congress on the bill. There is no more persuasive evidence of the purpose of a statute than the words by which the legislature undertook to give expression to its wishes, and these words are sufficient in and of themselves to... | |
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