 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...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 - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...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...law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of the man approves the judgment mentioned by Putfendorf, that the Bolognian law,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 644 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1228 pages
...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...law in such cases should prevail over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 74 US (7 Wall.) 482, 19 L. Ed. 278. "It is a familiar rule that a thing may... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2038 pages
...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...law In such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognlan law, which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 2084 pages
...avoid an unjust or an absurd conclusion. 'General terms,' sai,d the supreme court, in a case before it, 'should be so limited in their application as not...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter.' US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. So the judges of England construed the law which enacted that a prisoner... | |
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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... 
