Cavalier Vending Corp. v. State Board of Pharmacy

The object of Chapter 298, Acts of 1952, page 389, is to-restrict and regulate disposition of drugs, preparations or articles intended to prevent venereal disease or conception. By forbidding their sale in vending machines, the act prevents such clandestine and easy acquisition as might tend to encourage their promiscuous use. Thus the underlying and dominant purpose behind the legislation is to protect public health and morals.

The mandatory and explicit language of section 52 of the Constitution of Virginia is that “No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its…