 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: ... and Rules Announced at ... - 15 페이지저자: United States. Supreme Court - 1909전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1986 - 996 페이지
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...over its letter." United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486-487 (1869). See also Helvering v. Hammel, 311 US 504, 510 (1941); United States v. Katz, 271... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 페이지
...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...language, which would avoid results of this character. THE defendants were indicted for knowingly and wilfully obstructing and retarding the passage of the mail... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 페이지
...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...language, which would avoid results of this character. THE defendants were indicted for knowingly and wilfully obstructing and retarding the passage of the mail... | |
 | 1921 - 510 페이지
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions...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 페이지
...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...avoid results of this character. The reason of the law should prevail over the letter : US v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. The plaintiffs sixth and seventh points... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Henry Clifford - 1878 - 732 페이지
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...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 페이지
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the Legislature intended exceptions...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 be within the letter of... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 페이지
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always therefore be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...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... | |
 | 1881 - 956 페이지
...application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions...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... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 페이지
...consequence. It will always, therefore, be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its lanyuaye which would avoid results of this character. The reason of the law in such cases should prevail over the letter.' V. 8. v. Kirby, 1 Wall . 486. • In whatever language a statute may be framed , its purpose... | |
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