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 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 pages
...Constitution and laws. 5. 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, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 pages
...Constitution and laws. 6. 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, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would... | |
 | 1921 - 510 pages
...278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice,...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,... | |
 | 1896 - 644 pages
..."that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the and general terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice,...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 pages
...Vt., 479: People v. Admire, 39 111., 251; U. £ v. The Hunter, Pet. CC, 10. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead 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 - 732 pages
...provisions of the act. United States v. Coombs, Day v. Buffinton. 12 Pet. 72. " General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice,...language, which would avoid results of this character." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486. John C. Ropes, for the defendant. By § 8 of the first article... | |
 | 1915 - 1228 pages
...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 injustice,...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... | |
 | 1881 - 956 pages
...Wall. 482, 48(5, says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice,...law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter." Again, in French v. Edwards, 13 Wall. 506, 511, it says: '•There are, undoubtedly, many statutory... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 pages
...or an absurd conclusion. "General terms," said the supreme court, in a case before it, "should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice,...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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