 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...  The Pacific Reporter - Page 741918Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 634 pages
...concerned, in applying the Act to the present case than there would be in the supposed case. It is often presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language which would avoid absurd results. The illustrations referred to in the opinion of our brother ORLADY, in Lumberman's... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 780 pages
...the late Justice FIELD : " All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter." US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486, 4-87. We must hold that the city had the power to adopt the general charter... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 792 pages
...the late Justice FIELD: " All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter." US v. Eirby, 7 Wall. 486, 487. We must hold that the city had the power to adopt the general charter... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1901 - 1032 pages
...supreme court of the United States, " should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." ' Still, — Meanings of words. — The meanings of the words are not to be lost sight of. They will... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 972 pages
...construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always...in such cases should prevail over its letter." In Donnell v. Ktatc, 2 Ind. 054, a statute prohibiting the retailing of spirituous liquors without license... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1060 pages
...their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...in such cases should prevail over its letter." In Donnell v. State, 2 Ind. 658, a statute prohibiting the retailing of spirituous liquors without license... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Municipal corporations - 1902 - 1050 pages
...their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." This kind of legislation is not new to jurisprudence, nor novel upon the statute books of this state;... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1028 pages
...injustice or oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature lia intended exceptions to its language which would avoid...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." This kind of legislation is not new to jurisprudence, nor novel upon the statute books of this state;... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - Iowa - 1902 - 1290 pages
...the United States has said: "AH 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 - 1903 - 626 pages
...felony. " All laws," said the court, " should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." A case was cited from Plowden, holding that a statute, which punished a prisoner as a felon who \ broke... | |
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