 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 sider
...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 - 1870 - 800 sider
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 644 sider
...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 - 1877 - 764 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 766 sider
...special and explicit provisions of the act. United States v. Coombs, Day r. Buffinton. 12 Pet. 72. " General terms should be so limited in their application...language, which would avoid results of this character." United States v. Kirby, 1 Wall. 486. John C. Mopes, for the defendant. By § 8 of the first article... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 sider
...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... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1882 - 902 sider
...laws are to be so construed as to avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion; and general terms are to be so limited in their application as not to lead...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. In addition to the illustrations of this rule there given, we may refer to Dist. Cul.] CASE OF THE... | |
 | 1884 - 1042 sider
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 948 sider
...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... | |
 | 1913 - 1154 sider
...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... 
