beyond seas
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 24 U.S. 361 - Shelby · 1826Most cited · 101 citing opinions
statutory construction
if equity, as applied to the construction of statutes by an eminent writer, means, 'the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient;' or, as another defines it, 'interpreting statutes by the reason of them,' may be applied to any case, we think it may to one, which, while it operates in restraint of common right, would, by a literal construction, make no saving in favour of persons residing in the most distant and unfrequented parts of this extensive continent.
How often courts cite the cases defining “beyond seas”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “beyond seas” — 138 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1818–1826
- ORIGINAL
On this question, the court are unanimously of opinion, that to give a sensible construction to that act, the words 'beyond seas' must be held to be equivalent to 'without the limits of the state.
statutory equivalence