| United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 páginas
...the 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 páginas
...the 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 páginas
...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 lead...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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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 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 - 766 páginas
...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 lead...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 páginas
...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 lead...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... | |
| 1881 - 956 páginas
...Kirby, 1 Wall. 482, 48(5, says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter." Again, in French v. Edwards, 13 Wall. 506, 511, it says: '•There are, undoubtedly, many statutory... | |
| 1895 - 2084 páginas
...unjust 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...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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