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... United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Sida 551efter United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1885Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1887 - 1070 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
| Gustav Adolf Endlich - 1888 - 970 sidor
...Ind. 280. 634, 537 ; Somerset v. Dighton 12 stances from the spirit of its enactment." It follows that "general terms should be so limited in their application...reason of the law in such cases should prevail over its letter."70] Thus, where a by-law authorized the Poulters' Company to fine "all" poulters in London... | |
| 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 sidor
...United States v. Klrby, 7 Wall. 482, the court said : "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...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 sidor
...(see Ed. Law Jour. April 26, 1910), the court say: "All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited In their 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 sidor
...7 "Wall. 486 : " All laws should receive a sensiArgument for Defendant in Krror. ble construction. General terms should be so limited in their application...oppression or an absurd consequence. It will always be presumed that the legislature included exceptions to its language which would avoid result* of this... | |
| 1889 - 952 sidor
...under the maxim contra non valcntem agere rmlln currit prcewriptio. 1 Pothier, 451. It will always be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions to Its language which would avoid injustice, oppression or an absurd consequence. The reason of the law, in such cases, should prevail... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1892 - 762 sidor
...United States v. Kirby (7 Wallace, 482) the court say: 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. Applying this principle to the case at bar, it is an additional reasonwhy it must be held that the... | |
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