 Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes...  The Southern Reporter - Page 2001896Full view - About this book
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1896 - 942 pages
...February ' 21st, 1893, (Acts of 1892-3, p. 789) . It is contended that the act violates section 2, article 4 of the Constitution, which declares that "Each law...contain but one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title * * * * and no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 pages
...is in conflict with the second section of the fourth article of the State Constitution. That slction declares that, " each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title." The act we are considering certainly contains at least two distinct, separate subjects.... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 pages
...not vioLitive of the constitutional provision, contained in the second section of the fourth article, which declares that ' 'each law shall contain but one subject, which shall bo clearly expressed in its title." 2. Judicial knowledge of meanimj of words, and of Webster's Dictionary.... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - 1869 - 222 pages
...The style of the laws of this State shall be : "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama." Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title ; and no law shall be revised or amended unless the new act contain the entire act revised,... | |
 | Alabama - 1871 - 412 pages
...The style of the laws of this State shall be : "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama." Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title; and no law shall be revised or amended unless the new act contain the entire act revised,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 pages
...Constitutional Provisions. — The following are all the constitutional provisions in the various Slates : Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. — Alitbama, IV, 2; Kansas, II, 16. No bill shall, &c. [same as above], — Ohio, II,... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1876 - 518 pages
...v. Lapsley, where the court had under consideration the provision of the Constitution that declares: "Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, "and led the court " undoubtingly to tho conclusion that the said section of the Constitution... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1877 - 1054 pages
...The style of the laws of this State shall be, "He it enacted by the general assembly of Alabama /" each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code... | |
 | 1883 - 876 pages
...which he claimed the right, was unconstitutional, as against a provision of the State Constitution that " each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title." In an earlier indictment of the same defendant, when the same statutes were on the statute-book,... | |
 | 1919 - 1020 pages
...correct. Section 57, art. 5, of the Constitution provides: "Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title," etc. Mr. Black, In his work on Interpretation of Laws, p. 175, states the rule as follows: "Where the Constitution... | |
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