 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 804 pages
...prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 5. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 pages
...prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 6. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | 1921 - 510 pages
...486 (19 L. Ed. 278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of the man approves the judgment mentioned by Putfendorf, that the Bolognian law,... | |
 | 1896 - 644 pages
...which enacted "that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the and general terms should be so limited in their application as not to...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results of... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1877 - 764 pages
...Tilson, 17 Vt., 479: People v. Admire, 39 111., 251; U. £ v. The Hunter, Pet. CC, 10. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. US v. Kirby, 1 "Wall., 482. Moreover, if a literal construction be put upon this act, it is not only... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 766 pages
...explicit provisions of the act. United States v. Coombs, Day r. Buffinton. 12 Pet. 72. " General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...language, which would avoid results of this character." United States v. Kirby, 1 Wall. 486. John C. Mopes, for the defendant. By § 8 of the first article... | |
 | 1915 - 1228 pages
...absurdity." State v. Clark, 29 NJ Law, 96. "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 74 US (7 Wall.) 482, 19 L. Ed. 278. "It is a familiar rule that a thing may... | |
 | 1884 - 1912 pages
...Shore Ry. Co. v. Roach, 80 NY 339. "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to...legislature intended exceptions to its language which would aiwid re. sidts of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over the letter."... | |
 | 1894 - 2072 pages
...limited In their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will therefore be presumed that the legislature intended...language, which would avoid results of this character." Ho in Pollard v. Bailey, 20 Wall. 525, the chief justice said: "The intention of the legislature, when... | |
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All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... 
