 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more In sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 1078 pages
...protection of personal rights of the citizen, that "A close, literal, construction deprives them of half of their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it were more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of the constitutional... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional... | |
 | Criminal law - 1888 - 672 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy and leads to gradual depreciation of the right." The indictment must be quashed, and the case must be resubmitted to another grand jury — if possible,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1238 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1024 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - Criminal procedure - 1894 - 1062 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Genroy Kreider - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 798 pages
...the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional... | |
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This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation... 
