State v. Ferguson

Citations

• 104 La. 249

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. The “object” of a law is the aim or purpose of the enactment.</p> <p>2. The “subject” of a law is the matter’to which it relates and with which it deals.</p> <p>3. An act of the General Assembly must be restricted to one object and this must be expressed in its title.</p> <p>4. Where the title of an act actually indicates, and the act itself actually embraces two distinct objects, the whole of the act is void as contravening the constitutional inhibition.</p> <p>5. This necessarily results from the manifest impossibility of choosing between the two, and holding the act valid as to one and void as to the other.</p>