 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...  United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Página 551por United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1885Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 páginas
...forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 5. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...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
...forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 6. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...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
...Wall. 482, 486 (19 L. Ed. 278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...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 páginas
...Bolognian law which enacted "that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the and general terms should be so limited in their application...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
...96; Henry v. 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...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
...special and explicit provisions of the act. United States v. Coombs, Day r. Buffinton. 12 Pet. 72. " General terms should be so limited in their application...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
...avoid tbe absurdity." State v. Clark, 29 NJ Law, 96. "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...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 páginas
...but thinking makes it so." The Supreme Court says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...law In such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognlan law, which... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 páginas
...avoid an 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...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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