 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1955 - 908 páginas
...history to determine whether giving the words their natural significance leads to unreasonable results plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, or to determine whether a certain word or phrase has been employed with a more limited or different... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1953 - 476 páginas
...of the majority hereinbefore expressed has produced an absurd result, however, contrary to law and plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole. United States et cd. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al., 310 US 534, 542-544. Here the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 1392 páginas
...to a group of living persons now possessing in common the requisite characteristics, — not to 109 their natural significance; but if this leads to an...plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation aa a whole, the court must look to the reason of the enactment, and inquire into its antecedent history,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 1212 páginas
...ТЕВМ, their natural significance; but if this leads States citizen, although, at the time of iti to an unreasonable result, plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, the court must look to the reason of the enactment, and inquire into its antecedent history, and give... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1924 - 748 páginas
...я statute is ascertained by giving the words their natural significance, but, if this leads to nn unreasonable result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole, the court may look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into its antecedent history and give... | |
 | John Bond Trevor - 1925 - 100 páginas
...the conclusion that Congress intended the restriction to be no longer applicable to the provision. It is the duty of this Court to give effect to the intent...policy of the legislation as a whole, we must examine that matter further. We may then look to the reason of the enactment and inquire into its antecedent... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1929 - 1012 páginas
...find that giving the words their natural significance, to employ the language of the Supreme Court, " leads to an unreasonable result plainly at variance...legislation as a whole, we must examine the matter further." Section 3 (a) of the amended act provides as follows: Until otherwise directed by Congress, the corporation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1929 - 784 páginas
...sense, involve injustice, oppression or absurdity, United States v. Goldenberg, 168 US 95, 103, or lead to an unreasonable result, plainly at variance with the policy of the statute as a whole. Ozawa v. United States, 260 US 178, 194. Nothing of this kind is to be found in... | |
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Frequently, however, even when the plain meaning did not produce absurd results but merely an unreasonable one "plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole" this Court has followed that purpose, rather than the literal words. 
