 | 1916 - 1014 էջ
...is explained by the preceding statement of the Chief Justice, in the same sentence, that such an Act ought never to be construed to violate the law of...nations "if any other possible construction remains." In regard to a British Order in Council affecting the rules of decision in prize cases, the author... | |
 | 1963 - 812 էջ
...the laws of the flag state. The Court cited an opinion by Chief Justice John Marshall, stating that "an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other construction remains . . . ."e It stated that the LMRA should not be extended to this delicate area... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 646 էջ
...Canal tolls controversy.20 The courts are bound by acts of Congress, but said Chief Justice Marshall, " an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains." 21 With this principle Marshall construed the broad jurisdiction over offenses at sea conferred by... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 666 էջ
...Canal tolls controversy.20 The courts are bound by acts of Congress, but said Chief Justice Marshall, " an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains." 21 With this principle Marshall construed the broad jurisdiction over offenses at sea conferred by... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 688 էջ
...Canal tolls controversy.20 The courts are bound by acts of Congress, but said Chief Justice Marshall, " an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains." 21 With this principle Marshall construed the broad jurisdiction over offenses at sea conferred by... | |
 | Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - 1921 - 74 էջ
...statute. But, as was observed in the case of The Charming Betsey (2 Cranch, 64), decided in 1804, " an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations, if any other possible construction remains." A few years later Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of The Nereide (9 Cranch, 388), declared that... | |
 | Quincy Wright - 1922 - 460 էջ
...Canal tolls controversy.20 The courts are bound by acts of Congress, but said Chief Justice Marshall, " an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains." 21 With this principle Marshall construed the broad jurisdiction over offenses at sea conferred by... | |
 | 1923 - 946 էջ
...and, as said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Murray v. Schooner Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch 64, 118: . . . an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations if any other possible construction remains. . . . That the Government has full power under the Volstead Act to prevent the landing or transhipment... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1923 - 872 էջ
...as said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Murray v. Schooner Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch, 64, 118: " . . . an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...nations, if any other possible construction remains. . . ." That the Government has full power under the Volstead Act to prevent the landing or transshipment... | |
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an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains... 
