 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
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - Presidents - 1906 - 188 pages
...from its opinion in United States v. Kirby: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. . . . The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognian law which... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 392 pages
...opinion, the Court says : '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. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognian law which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1366 pages
...Walsh, 15 Mo. 519. In such cases, the reason of the law prevails over its letter, and general terms are so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd i-onsequem-i'. the presumption being indulged that the legislature intended no such anomalous results.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 554 pages
...should be so limited as not to lead to injustice, oppression or absurd consequences. It will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...law in such cases should prevail over its letter. United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486; In re Chapman, 166 US 667; Low Ow Bow v. United-States, 144 US... | |
 | William Wheeler Thornton - Employers' liability - 1909 - 484 pages
...States v. Kirby, 1 Wai.. 482; "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislation intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results of this character. The reason... | |
 | Maine. Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics - Factory inspection - 1909 - 526 pages
...v. Stnith, 78 Maine, 212." 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." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. Applying this familiar principle, so well illustrated by the few... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1208 pages
...Walsh, 15 Mo. 519. In such cases, the reason of the law prevails over its letter, and 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 : United States... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1910 - 900 pages
...Wall. 482, 19 L. Ed. 278: "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." So here it is not presumed that the legislature intended to require, as a condition of its right to... | |
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