| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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