 | 1819 - 660 pages
...imports no more than that one thing-is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. Such is the character of human language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood as employing any mean« calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined...without which the end would be .entirely unattainable. Such is the character of human language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 pages
...imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood as employing any means calculated to 414 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. Such is the character of human language that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 pages
...useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally undei-stood as employing any means calculated to produce the end,...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. Marshall, CJ, 4 Wheaton'g R. 316, 413. NECESSARY DOMICIL. That kind of domicil which exists by operation... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 pages
...will at once suggest to him many illustrations of the use of the word in this sense. 1 To employ the means, necessary to an end, is generally understood, as employing any means caleulated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means without which the end... | |
 | 1897 - 678 pages
.... . . Is it true that this is the sense in which the word "necessary" is always used? To employ the means necessary to an end Is generally understood...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. A thing may be necessary, very necessary, absolutely or indispensably necessary. If the word "necessary"... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 pages
...imports no more than that one thing ia convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. Such is the character of human language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 pages
...imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood...without which the end would be entirely unattainable. Such is the character of human language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single... | |
 | 1868 - 894 pages
...both necessary and expedient on any subject within the range of its powers to act. " To employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood...employing any means calculated to produce the end." Congress has employed a means in raising and supporting armies, in addition to pay, clothing, &c.,... | |
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If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally... 
