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 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1232 pages
...impossible to perform. "Besides," said this court in US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486, "general terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, oran absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | J. Kendrick Kinney - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 520 pages
...Considine, 6 Wai. 458. 15. All laws should receive a sensible construction : general terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or absurd consequences ; and it will always be presumed thut the legislature intended exceptions to its... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1070 pages
...Walsh, 15 Mo. 519. In such cases the reason of the law prevails over its letter, ano general terms are so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence; the presumption being indulged that the legislature intended no such anomalous results. U. 8. v. Kirby,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 792 pages
...interpreted, not only by its exact words, bufalso by its apparent general purpose. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. United States v. Freeman^ How. 556; United States v. Kirby,1 Wall. 482; United States v. Saunders,... | |
 | Gustav Adolf Endlich - Law - 1888 - 970 pages
...Somerset v. Dighton 12 stances from the spirit of its enactment." It follows that "general terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter."70] Thus, where a by-law authorized the Poulters' Company to fine "all" poulters in London... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 676 pages
...Wall. 482, the court said : "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." This genRodman v. Reynolds et al. eral doctrine was affirmed in Humphrics v. Dacis, 100 Ind. 274, where... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1320 pages
...26, 1910), the court say: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited In their application as not to lead to Injustice, oppression, or absurd consequences. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 778 pages
...laws should receive a sensiArgument for Defendant in Krror. ble construction. 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 included exceptions to its language which would avoid result* of this... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 952 pages
...under the maxim contra non valcntem agere rmlln currit prcewriptio. 1 Pothier, 451. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to Its language which would avoid injustice, oppression or an absurd consequence. The reason of the law, in such cases, should prevail... | |
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