 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 trang
...Constitution and laws. 5. 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, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 trang
...Constitution and laws. 6. 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, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | 1921 - 510 trang
...Ed. 278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...should prevail over its letter. The common sense of the man approves the judgment mentioned by Putfendorf, that the Bolognian law, which enacted 'that... | |
 | 1896 - 644 trang
...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 lead 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 trang
...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 lead 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 - 732 trang
...provisions of the act. United States v. Coombs, Day v. Buffinton. 12 Pet. 72. " General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...language, which would avoid results of this character." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486. John C. Ropes, for the defendant. By § 8 of the first article... | |
 | 1915 - 1228 trang
...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 lead 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... | |
 | 1919 - 2038 trang
...The Supreme Court says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognlan law, which enacted 'that whoever drew blood In the streets should be punished with the utmost... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 trang
...or an absurd conclusion. 'General terms,' sai,d the supreme court, in a case before it, 'should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter.' US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. So the judges of England construed the law which enacted that a prisoner... | |
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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... 
