Practical Construction - Judgment Search Results

Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru and ors.Vs. State of Kerala and anr ...

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1973SC1461; (1973)4SCC225; [1973]SuppSCR1

..... or doubt or where two views may well be entertained contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction are entitled to the greatest weight certainly plaintiffs in error cannot reasonably assert that ..... sustains their position as to entitle them to object that contemporaneous history and practical construction are not to be allowed their legitimate force and conceding that their argument inspires .....

Myers Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... 311 clearly recognizes the right of congress to impose restrictions concerning the legislative and practical construction following this debate mr justice story wrote 1833 it constitutes perhaps the most ..... of duration is not specially declared these great expounders had no knowledge of any practical construction of the constitution sufficient to support the theory here advanced this court knew .....

Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association and Anr. Vs. Union of In ...

Court: Supreme Court of India

..... effect of the constitutional provision here in question are confirmed by the practical construction that has been given to it by the presidents through a long course of years ..... we have not refrained from reconsideration of a prior construction of the constitution that has proved unsound in principle and unworkable in practice based on the above learned counsel summarized his assertions .....

Pollock Vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company

Court: US Supreme Court

..... levy a tax upon personalty this amounts to such a practical construction of the constitution that the power did not exist that ..... tax it may be rightly affirmed therefore that in the practical construction of the constitution by congress direct taxes have been limited ..... or treated by congress as a direct tax this uniform practical construction of the constitution touching so important a point through so .....

Scott Vs. Sandford

Court: US Supreme Court

..... to allow or prohibit slavery in the territory belonging to the united states a practical construction nearly contemporaneous with the adoption of the constitution and continued by repeated instances ..... including all who were in public life when the constitution was adopted if the practical construction of the constitution contemporaneously with its going into effect by men intimately acquainted .....

Fairbank Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... pressed upon our attention which deserves and has received careful consideration is the practical construction of this constitutional provision by legislative action on july 6 1797 an act ..... ambiguity or doubt or where two views may well be entertained contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction are entitled to the greatest weight certainly plaintiffs in error cannot reasonably assert .....

Worcester Vs. Georgia

Court: US Supreme Court

..... been intended at the time and which is inconsistent with the practical construction which has always been put on them but its essential ..... been intended at the time and which is inconsistent with the practical construction which has always been put on them but its essential ..... or for the prevention of injuries and oppression such a construction would be inconsistent with the spirit of this and of .....

United States Vs. South-eastern Underwriters

Court: US Supreme Court

..... of insurance is not interstate commerce footnote 2 11 such has ever since been the practical construction by the other branches of the government of the application to insurance of the commerce ..... clause and the sherman act long continued practical construction of the constitution or a statute is of persuasive force in determining its meaning and .....

Downes Vs. Bidwell

Court: US Supreme Court

..... declaration of the rights secured to the people of the territory pausing to analyze the practical construction which resulted from the acquisition of the vast domain covered by the louisiana purchase ..... treaty also contained provisions for incorporation and was acted upon exactly in accord with the practical construction applied in the case of the acquisitions from mexico as just stated however the .....

Parsons Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... was incident to the power of appointment but it was very early adopted as the practical construction of the constitution that this power was vested in the president alone and such would ..... district of columbia the case contains nothing in opposition to the contention as to the practical construction that had been given to the constitution by congress in 1789 and by the government .....