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" It is elementary that the meaning of a statute must, in the first instance, be sought in the language in which the act is framed, and if that is plain, and if the law is within the constitutional authority of the law-making body which passed it, the sole... "
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases - Page 481
by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1939
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Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series, Volume 30

Ohio. Circuit Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 652 pages
...duty on the court to interpret it. Its meaning must in the first instance be sought in the language is which the act is framed, and if that is plain, and if the law is constitutional, the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms. Elmwood Place...
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Item Veto: Hearing Before Subcommittee No. 3 on H. J. Res. 47 [and Other ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Veto - 1958 - 158 pages
...been fully understood. Holmes v. Jemmison ((1840), 14 Pet. 540, 570-571). The meaning of a provision must in the first instance 'be sought in the language in which it is framed, Caminetti v. United States ((1917) 242 US 470), in the absence of ambiguity there is...
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Independent Offices Appropriations

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Executive departments - 1927 - 760 pages
...same thing that the Attorney General held. In Caminetti v. United States (242 US 470, 485) it is said: "It is elementary that the meaning of a statute must,...constitutional authority of the lawmaking body which There being* no ambiguity in the language of the rider to the appropriation act, resort could not be...
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Second Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974, Hearings Before ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee - 1974 - 1062 pages
...Supreme Court declared in Gaminetti v. United States, 242 US 470, 485 (1917), that "the meaning of the statute must, in the first instance, be sought in the language in which the act is framed." Accordingly, the first reference in determining the authorization for the requested appropriation must...
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Savings and Loan Associations: Changes Needed in the Regulation of Their ...

United States. General Accounting Office - Savings and loan associations - 1978 - 72 pages
...Relations Board~7 J52 F.2d 636, 641 (3rd Cir . 1964). As the Supreme Court held in Caminetti, supra; "[I]t is elementary that the meaning of a statute...constitutional authority of the law-making body which APPENDIX III APPENDIX III passed it, the sole function of the court is to enforce it according to its...
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Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring Act: Hearing Before the Committee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Railroad law - 1979 - 154 pages
...its apparently clear meaning. It is a primary rule of statutory construction that "the meaning of the statute must, in the first instance, be sought in...language in which the act is framed, and if that is plain . . . the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its term." ' This rule has come...
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Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare ..., Parts 4-5

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies - United States - 1979 - 1496 pages
...embraced this principle which is commonly referred to as the "plain meaning rule." "The meaning of the statute must, in the first instance, be sought in...in which the act is framed, and If that is plain, . . . the sole function of the courts Is to enforce it according to its terms." (Cam! net tl v. United...
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Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Officials: Hearing Before ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - Drug control - 1985 - 336 pages
...bono, he ought to return.") I. THE STATUTORY TEXT It is a well-settled rule of statutory construction that "the meaning of a statute must, in the first...sought in the language in which the act is framed. . . ." Caminette v. United States, 242 US 470, 485 (1917). See also Group Life and Health Ins. Co....
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Oversight Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice - Eavesdropping - 1985 - 360 pages
...terms of the FISA. Here, as in any case involving statutory interpretation, ". . . the meaning of the statute must, in the first instance, be sought in the language in which tlio act is framed, and if that is plain . . . the solo function of the courts is to enforce it according...
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Continuing Oversight of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law - Alien labor - 1988 - 268 pages
...not arise. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. "(T]he meaning of the statute must, in the first instance, be sought in...language in which the act is framed, and if that is plain . . . the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms." Caminetti v. United...
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