 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1902 - 1050 pages
...language of Mr. Justice Field in US v. Kirby. 7 Wall. 482, 19 L. Ed. 278, which may well be repeated here: "General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1902 - 1028 pages
...language of Mr. Justice Field in United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, which may well be repeated here: "General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature lia intended... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1903 - 622 pages
...ordinary processes for his arrest and detention when accused of felony. " All laws," said the court, " should receive a sensible construction. General terms...results of this character. The reason of the law in such casesshould prevail over its letter." A case was cited from Plowden, holding that a statute, which... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1903 - 1026 pages
...lawful in themselves from the execution of which a temporary delay to the mails unavoidably followed. "All laws should receive a sensible construction....limited in their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression or an absurd consequence." Applying that rule here, the statute attacked does not make... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - 1901 - 796 pages
...laid down, which is recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in the following language: All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...language which would avoid results of this character. The rea*on of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The common sense of man approves the... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...temporary delay to the mails unavoidably follows. "... All laws should receive a sen50 LR Л. sible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice or oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed that the legislature intended... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1906 - 728 pages
...Banks, 23 Wall. 307, 320; United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486; Knowlton v. Moore, 178 U. 8. 77. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1906 - 710 pages
...National Banks, 23 Wall. 307, 320; United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486; Knowlton v. Moore, 178 US 77. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1906 - 710 pages
...National Banks, 23 Wall. 307, 320; United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486; Krwwlton v. Moore, 178 US 77. All laws should receive a sensible construction. General...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions... | |
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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... 
