 | 1885 - 892 pages
...supplementary or exceptive to the main provisions. United States v. Jackson,* 10 NY Leg. Obs., 451. § 2770. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...injustice, oppression or an absurd consequence. It will be presumed in such cases that the legislature intended exceptions to its language which would avoid... | |
 | 1885 - 1232 pages
...which it was physically impossible to perform. "Besides," said this court in US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 486, "general terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, oran absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | J. Kendrick Kinney - 1886 - 520 pages
...argument of a general intent. [GRIER and CLIPFORD, JJ., dissenting.] Poor v. Considine, 6 Wai. 458. 15. All laws should receive a sensible construction :...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or absurd consequences ; and it will always be presumed thut the legislature intended exceptions to its... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1887 - 792 pages
...statute is to be interpreted, not only by its exact words, bufalso by its apparent general purpose. General terms should be so limited in their application...to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. United States v. Freeman^ How. 556; United States v. Kirby,1 Wall. 482; United States v. Saunders,... | |
 | 1887 - 1070 pages
...Walsh, 15 Mo. 519. In such cases the reason of the law prevails over its letter, ano 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. U. 8. v. Kirby,... | |
 | 1897 - 1054 pages
...against unreason. Inconvenience, or injustice." And again (section 258): "General terms [as "assigns"] should be so limited in their application as not to lead to * » * an absurd consequence." Now, when we look to see against whom the action may be brought, we... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1888 - 676 pages
...himself done what the law requires of him. In United States v. Klrby, 7 Wall. 482, the court said : "All laws should receive a sensible construction....injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence." This genRodman v. Reynolds et al. eral doctrine was affirmed in Humphrics v. Dacis, 100 Ind. 274, where... | |
 | 1911 - 1320 pages
...Mass, 197 US 11, 25 Sup. Ct. 358, 49 L. Ed. 643 (see Ed. Law Jour. April 26, 1910), the court say: "All laws should receive a sensible construction....application as not to lead to Injustice, oppression, or absurd consequences. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1889 - 778 pages
...States v. Kirby, 7 "Wall. 486 : " All laws should receive a sensiArgument for Defendant in Krror. ble construction. General terms should be so limited in...oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature included exceptions to its language which would avoid result* of this... | |
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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... 
