| United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 804 páginas
...forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 5. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...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 páginas
...forms prescribed by the Constitution and laws. 6. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
| 1921 - 510 páginas
...Wall. 482, 486 (19 L. Ed. 278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid... | |
| Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1877 - 764 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results... | |
| 1915 - 1228 páginas
...avoid tbe absurdity." State v. Clark, 29 NJ Law, 96. "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to its language which would avoid results... | |
| 1884 - 1902 páginas
...Wend. 399; Lake Shore Ry. Co. v. Roach, 80 KY 339. " 'All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its lanyuaye which would avoid results... | |
| 1919 - 2038 páginas
...but thinking makes it so." The Supreme Court says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature Intended exceptions to Its language, which would avoid... | |
| 1894 - 2072 páginas
...UB v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 483, Mr. Justice Field said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited In their application...injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results... | |
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