...sensible construction, and that general terms when used in a statute should be so limited in fhelr application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 19 L. Ed. 278. [8] It is also true that charters of municipal corporations...

...Justice Field in delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v. Kirby, 7 Wai.. 482; "All laws should receive a sensible construction....not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd conseqxience. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislation intended exceptions to its...

...Dek field v. Bratlij. 108 XY 524, 52!).) In Jucol)xon v. ,1/Vrv.s1.. 197 I". S. 11, the Court says: "All laws should receive a sensible construction....limited in their application as not to lead to injustice or absurd consequences. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended exception to its language...

...avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion. 'General terms,' said the Supreme Court in a case before it, 'should be so limited in their application as not...injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence.' " so This, it seems to me, instead of being a justification for more strict legislation, was a suitable...

...inconsistent with the meaning of an act as a whole, it should be rejected. In such cases, he said, it must be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language which would avoid such results.178 Again in the Flag Law Case Mr. Justice Moreland said that literally hundreds of cases...

...statute be absurd, the act must be so construed as to avoid the absurdity.' State v. Clark, 29 NJL 96. 'All laws should receive a sensible construction....presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to ite language which would avoid results of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should...

...Downer Co. (T. D. 30228; Dec. 28, 1909.) General terms: All laws should be interpreted so as to give a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to an absurd or ridiculous result. (TD 34819—GA 7609; Oct. 7, 1914.) History of legislation: The bottle...

...was illegal and without power." The construction adopted in the cited case seems to follow the rule that "all laws should receive a sensible construction....to injustice, oppression or an absurd consequence. . . . The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter." United States v. Kirby,...

...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...

...Field in United States v. Kirby. 7 Wall. 482, 486- (19 L. Ed. 278) states the principle as follows : "All laws should receive a sensible construction....language, which would avoid results of this character." Words apparently inserted through inadvertence, which, if literally construed, would destroy the obvious...