 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
 | 1910 - 324 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... | |
 | Law - 1910 - 548 pages
...Kirby, 7 Wallace held that,— "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." Even Judge Cooley says, that while Constitutional provisions should always be treated as mandatory,... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 876 pages
...v. Clark, 29 NJ Law, 96. "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." United States v. Kirby. 74 IT. S. 482 (19 L. Ed. 278). See, also, United Slates v. Palmer, 16 US 631... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - International law - 1910 - 124 pages
...sustaining the plea, said: All Jaws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited In their application as not to lead 'to...language which would avoid results of this character. Thereason of the law 4n such cases should prevail over its tetter. The common sense of men approves... | |
 | Railroad law - 1910 - 872 pages
...278, the Supreme 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. It will also therefore be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid... | |
 | Maine - 1910 - 1178 pages
...Sti.ith, 78 Alaine, 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... | |
 | Thomas Gold Frost - Corporation law - 1911 - 350 pages
...laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their operation as not to lead to injustice, oppression or an absurd...law in such cases should prevail over its letter. US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 19 LE 278. 17. In construing a statute general expressions will not be restrained... | |
 | 1911 - 106 pages
...great court as follows : " The laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to...results of this character. The reason of the law in such case should prevail over the letter." Defending this rule of construction from the charge of judicial... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 808 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...the Legislature intended exceptions to its language Reason t> which would avoid results of this character. The letter of law. reason of the law in such... | |
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