 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1921 - 510 pages
...punished or endamaged." In the United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486 (19 L. Ed. 278), this court said: "All laws should receive a sensible construction....reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of the man approves the judgment mentioned by Putfendorf, that the Bolognian... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 766 pages
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 956 pages
...the legislature to create or provide." The supreme court, in US v. Kirby, 1 Wall. 482, 48(5, says : "All laws should receive a sensible construction....reason of the law, in such cases, should prevail over its letter." Again, in French v. Edwards, 13 Wall. 506, 511, it says: '•There are, undoubtedly, many... | |
 | 1884 - 1912 pages
...must put a reasonable construction upon the words." Id. 587. See Donaldson v. Wood, 22 Wend. 399 ; Lake Shore Ry. Co. v. Roach, 80 NY 339. "All laws...legislature intended exceptions to its language which would aiwid re. sidts of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over the letter."... | |
 | 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...reason of the 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... | |
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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... 
