 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...arrest and detention when accused of felony, in the forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 5. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...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 - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...arrest and detention when accused of felony, in the forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 6. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 644 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...the words.' Id. 587. See Donaldson v. Wood, 22 Wend. 399; Lake Shore Ry. Co. v. Roach, 80 KY 339. " 'All laws should receive a sensible construction....presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its lanyuaye which would avoid results of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1042 pages
...the words :' Ib. 587 ; See Donaldson v. Wood, 22 Wend., 309; Lake Shore Ry. Co. v. Roach, 80 NY, 339. "All laws should receive a sensible construction....reason of the law in such cases should prevail over the letter:' US v. Kirby, 7 Wai., 486. 'In whatever language a statute may be framed, its purpose must... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 948 pages
...to look into, import words into the statute." Says the court in United States v. Kirby, 1 Wall. 482: "All laws should receive a sensible construction....reason of the law in such cases should prevail over the letter. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognian... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1154 pages
...governed by well-settled rules, applicable alike to the construction of constitutions and statutes. 'All laws should receive a sensible construction....language which would avoid results of this character.' US v. Klrby, 7 Wall. 482 [19 L. Ed. 278]. And see Stute v. McKenney, 18 Nev. 189 [2 Рас. 171]; State... | |
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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... 
